Metanarratives can save lives. They can save civilizations. Or said differently, lack of metanarratives can kill off civilizations. It’s happened before that civilizations drive off a cliff because their people failed to see the bigger picture they were part of.

We can be diligent students of history's attractors & faithful navigators of its winds and currents—while still remaining agnostic as to what actually will happen. The point is those who're best at recognizing what can happen also have the greatest chances of affecting what will.

Wholeness doesn't come from trying to be whole, from striving for wholeness -- but from accepting brokenness and incompleteness. Wholeness only ever arrives as a surprise.

The final part in Octopusyarn 's series on metamodern religion:

metamoderna.org/transforming-c…

I wish you all a most enchanted Bicycle Day. May this lovely day bring you peace, love, and transcendence.

Part 3 in Octopusyarn 's series on metamodern religion:

metamoderna.org/cosmo-local-co…

The author of Octopusyarn is at it again. Part two in his series on metamodern religion is out on Metamoderna.

metamoderna.org/a-headless-god/

Bill Gates recently said that only three jobs are immune to be taken over by AI: energy-, biology-related jobs, and those who specialise in the AI tools themselves.

I disagree. In the long run only the triple-P population will be safe: Priests, Prostitutes and Philosophers.

Behold! The author of Octopusyarn has started writing a series of articles on Metamoderna about the delicate subject of metamodern religion:

metamoderna.org/deus-ex-myceli…

To my Portuguese speaking friends:
The Listening Society has now been published in Portuguese by the good folks at Afluente. Thanks for the great work you put into this. The title of the book is:
- Sociedade da Escuta
Love the sound of that.

afluente.art/produto/socied…

In case Elon destroys Twitter, excuse me 'X', and you lose me in your life forever, the boys and I have created a Substack: metamoderna.substack.com
Don't forget that I also have personal blog on Medium: medium.com/@hanzifreinacht

There's little doubt that civilization has entered a period of inescapable decline. Nothing weird or unusual about that. Everything in nature is born, blossoms, and finally falters and withers away. But cheer up, it's less depressing if you think about our time as pumpkin season.

To those of you who're still wondering what that metamodernism thing is all about I present a week-long introduction to metamodernism with Emil Ejner Friis, Daniel Görtz and yours truly: dandelion.events/e/a-dramatic-i…

Alexander Bard's observations in 'Syntheism - Creating God in the Internet Age' are brilliant. He's just wrong about one crucial aspect. It's not God we're creating. It's Satan. As such, we must become satanists, lest the next 50 years of darkness won't become our dance floor.

Madness is civilization's shadow.

Many neuroatypical people fall between the cracks of the social hierarchies of everyday life: like Diogenes, they can live on the street but have Alexander the Great come visiting. They can be famous but poor. Rich but lonely. Awkward but admired.

metamoderna.org/neuroatypicali…

becomeconscious.substack.com/p/cad00246-dfa…

This year’s Metamodern Masterclass will be held in July 1st – 26th. If you want 2024 to be the summer of new perspectives, of metamodernism, by all means read on and find out more about the course content and how to sign up.

dandelion.events/e/the-metamode…