[This is Part 9 of a series of posts which serialize my book, A Metarevolutionary Manifesto . Read Part 8 here .] This brings us to a challenge. Our metarevolution has no particular deity, nor desire to create a new one. We need something else which fits our uniquely metamodern era. In that sense, neither traditional religion nor antireligion are the answers. What we need is the Good, not God. But we also need to make the case for the Good to a largely unreceptive (or even h

I want to tell you about autonomoktisis . We could also call it the autonomy approach . Simply put: People, societies, and governments should seek to convert heteronomy into autonomy. Let’s explore what that means. What follows is a prolegomenon, intended to chart a direction, not conclude a journey. Autonomoktisis = autos (self) + nomos (law) + ktisis (to create/bring into being) The central journey of moral life is from heteronomy to autonomy. Heteronomy is the state of b

[This is Part 8 of a series of posts which serialize my book, A Metarevolutionary Manifesto . Read Part 7 here .] It is inescapable, then, that discussion of the meaning crisis within our metacrisis would lead to Value itself and the possibility of perfection. The Good is the first principle of everything; its displacement from our attention, its subversion into “idolatry” (as in nihilistic ontologies which place Power prior to Value, and thus flatten Value into Power’s rela