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Humanism’s Twin Goals for Society: Freedom and Solidarity
The philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote presciently about the danger of a society of lonely individuals. She defined loneliness not as solitude—since solitude is where one can reflect on their connection to themselves and others and really prepare themselves for encountering others. She described loneliness as isolation and even alienation from others... See more
Sure, Mr. Hoover. • Hope beyond individualism
Fukuyama was so prescient. In a society with strong rights and material comfort, but light on demanding shared purposes and some degree of sacrifice, thymotic energies go searching. Some quiet into bourgeois hedonism; other will seek “metaphorical wars” and eventually real ones. https://t.co/PfwPxzto4Z
Any philosophy for the modern era will need to cope with the idea that our freedom is embedded together, that more than ever, society will be bottoms-up versus top-down. If we want to decrease institutional power, we also lower institutional responsibility. We’ll need to be responsible for each other. A modern philosophy will need to confront the... See more
Packy McCormick • Existential Optimism
“Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” Whitman wrote in what may be the most elemental definition of solidarity — this tender recognition of our interdependence and fundamental kinship, deeper than sympathy, wider than love.
Kropotkin spent four decades in exile across Western Europe and went on to influence generations of thinkers
... See moreWe’re in a potential civilizational shift. We’re moving towards the closing and constraining of the American society (tariffs, immigration restrictions, industrial policy, government investments in firms, endless subsidies and debt burdens, cancel culture and free speech restrictions…). We know how this story ends. Every civilization that has
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