Jonathan Franks

“Our current society is designed to achieve growth of industrial output and redistributing its
spoils. Future society must expand upon today’s society’s way of functioning; its institutions must be geared towards achieving more psychological goals. More goals of the soul.”
― Hanzi Freinacht, The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One

“It is solemn duty of the philosopher to piss on all that you hold dear and sacred, to show you that your gods are false.”
― Hanzi Freinacht, The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One

“A smaller axis of progressives do have intuitive and sometimes explicit understandings that the times are-a-changin’. These strata are concentrated around progressive parties such as the Pirate Party (started in Sweden, but had the most success in Germany and lately in Iceland), the Greens, the Feminist Initiative (also Sweden) and The Alternative (a Danish party, by far the most insightful and progressive one, discussed in chapter 5) Such parties are indicative of new progressive strata of the population, representing the groups we can call the triple-H: hipsters, hackers and hippies.”
― Hanzi Freinacht, The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One

“I develop if you develop. Even if we don’t agree, we come closer to the truth if we create better dialogues and raise the standards for how we treat one another.”
― Hanzi Freinacht, The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One