[This is Part 10 of a series of posts which serialize my book, A Metarevolutionary Manifesto . Read Part 9 here .] Our meaning crisis has been our portal into our broader system of crises known here as a metacrisis, as well as the system of action-centers known as a metarevolution. This section will get more specific about the particularities of complexity, such that the reader will gain an appreciation for how this manifesto is about all of the urgent political and social i
[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