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Political metamodernism; Freer than libertarianism, more regen than ecologism, more egalitarian than socialism, more prudent than conservatism and more rebellious than anarchism 👀 In short, political metamodernism should help us transcend the left/right political divide to finally build well-functioning societies without biases. In this post: - Problems - Six New Forms of Politics - Memetic Revolution - Towards a Sustainable Future Implementing these six new forms of politics should lead us to less pollution, less destruction, less mindless consumption; and at the same time - surprisingly, more freedom 👀👀👀
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Problems For the most part, issues like people suffering from a lack of basic resources & easily preventable diseases, have been resolved. Alas! New problems emerged: - Global issues like ecological unsustainability - Extreme inequality, money extraction & housing crises - Alienation & lack of meaning leading to all kinds of crazy shit happening
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Emotions run the world Avoidance of negative emotions makes up the invisible machinery that lets everyday life in any society run smoothly and not descend into chaos. Exclusion & rejection activate the same brain patterns as physical pain - pushing people to bitterness & vengefulness. Happy people make more people happy and angry sad people make more people angry and sad. In a sense, there’s an economy of emotions underlying all societies. How other people feel affects us whether we like it or not.
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6 New Forms of Politics Metamodern politics are about building frameworks that that consciously evolve culture itself, shift the games of everyday life, and verify. - Democratization Politics - Updating systems of governance - Community Politics - Improving the quality of human relationships - Existential Politics - Supporting people’s life journeys & mental health - Freedom Politics - Protecting people from all forms of oppression - Empirical Politics - Evaluating policies & institutional practices - Politics of Theory - Co-developing the narratives societies rely on Will these new forms of politics rely on state bureaucracy, nonprofits or the market? All three, actually!
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Democratization Politics The word “democracy” mostly came to mean “representative democracy” where we vote once every 3 years. But really, democracy is a spectrum based on the level of collective intelligence present in the system of governance. Improving it would mean: - Higher transparency, volume & efficiency of information processing - Increased accountability & verifiability - Increased participation of the public in opinion & policy formation State of the Art In the civil & the professional spheres, we see a crazy growth of facilitation techniques: Art of Hosting, Deep Democracy, Theory U, Sociocracy etc. Along with these, we see more & more digital technologies - new voting systems, deliberation apps, feedback systems etc. Overall, shitloads of tools & techniques to improve quality, efficiency, transparency & fairness of governance. But we aren’t seeing any adoption by governments, are we?
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State of the State We went all the way up to Web3 but the political system got stuck in pre-internet era. Social science shows institutions impact societies more than anything. Why is Costa Rica doing ok & Venezuela not? Denmark competitive & Greece not? Institutions. Is it a bad idea to spend like 0.5% of GDP on improving governance? 🤷‍♂️ Threat of Global Governance Most pressing issues are at the global level. This means global governance is growing and we’ll likely see more & more layers of top-down governance at the supra-state level. If we don‘t improve democracy, we’ll be living in a global non-democracy. All accountability & transparency will be lost.
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Community Politics “Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships—the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together and work together, in the same world, at peace”.— Franklin D. Roosevelt In postindustrial societies with annual per capita GDP above $25k, the reasons for suffering are no longer material - they’re behaviors, psychologies & social relations that aren’t functioning properly. We‘d start worrying about questions like: - Whats the distribution of social capital & status? - Interpersonal trust, kindness & willingness to help strangers? - Do people have the resources for conflict resolution? - How many perceived enemies do people have? - How good are we at perspective-taking? - How lonely are people? In societies where people communicate better, there’s less resentment, hence less reason for discrimination.
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Existential Politics In short, the goal of Existential Politics is lowering the number of broken souls and increasing the number of phoenixes rising. Moreover, exclusion & rejection activate the same brain patterns as physical pain, pushing people to bitterness or vengefulness - and nothing is a better predictor of what we do, than our relationship with existence. People with stunted development remain at low value memes - where you find most criminals & homeless. It’s hard to become a reasonable person if you feel miserable. Stunted personal growth makes its way into crime statistics & suicide rates; your car gets broken into, your neighbor’s daughter ODs on Fentanyl. There‘s another mass shooting, more angry & sad people, higher police & medical spending etc. etc.
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We need to be asking questions like: - How many people follow their dreams? - How many suffer from existential crisis? - How many feel a lack of meaning? - How many are stuck in traumas? Helping people develop healthy habits like exercise, body postures & body language, sharpen their social skills & emotional intelligence, learn the benefits of exercise & healthy food - all of which are scientifically proven to reduce depression. Skills for dealing with inner demons, learning new life philosophies, practicing meditation, forgiving others, sorting ethical dilemmas etc.
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Freedom Politics The idea is to create a permanent framework for ongoing debate about freedom and oppression, a “Human Rights 2.0”. Monitor trends of experienced oppression, publicizing and discussing data etc. The 4 categories of oppression: 1. Oppression by state or market structures 2. People ignoring or downplaying your perspective for being a part of a minority 3. People directly standing in your way or forcing you to do something 4. Our own oppression of ourselves, due to societal norms or skills to act freely If people are failing to find inner voices of conscience or develop their talents because they are pressured or systematically ignored, this can be made visible for the public and measures can be taken.
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Empirical Politics Empirical Politics is about creating an ongoing process for making society more scientifically driven and empirically tested. With our level of technological power, failure to upgrade the level of scientificness in society is borderline suicidal. We got peer-reviewed science, peer-reviewed open-source code development - why not a peer-reviewed society? 🤷‍♂️ It wrestles questions like: - What level of social welfare optimizes security while staying financially viable? - How do we improve democratic deliberation & political engagement? - How do we increase people’s ability to critically evaluate sources of information?
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The biggest terrors of human history were born from blocked feedback systems, where truths were suppressed & ignored. Communism & fascism are direct consequences of unchecked hypotheses & lack of proper truth-seeking processes. To avoid running our societies into the ground, we need to know how to double-check suppositions, claims & ideas of one another. We increase our collective capacity for crosschecking, and over time, the self-organization of society stands on a deeper web of verifications and falsifications. (Ahem, this is also where Web3 plays in)
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