“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.”
― The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
― The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
“Ours is a world full of self-deceit, my friend. But it is at the same time a world full of sincere truth seeking, scientific progress and curios late night conversations about the nature of reality and existence.”
― The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
― The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
“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.”
― The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
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.”
― 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.”
― The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
― The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
“Humanity is only capable of worshipping Self — thus, it is necessary, that when people are persuaded to pay honor to an elected Divinity, they should be well and comfortably assured in their own minds that they are but offering homage to an Image of Self placed before them in a deified or heroic form. This satisfies the natural idolatrous cravings of Egotism, and this is all that priests or teachers desire.”
― Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self
― Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self
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