A new vision for the West

[Nilsi]

5 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

I bet you think turquoise = mysticism  Tier 2 cognition is honestly not that rare once you look in the right places. On a global average, sure.

absolutely. i would even claim it comes with a pinch of mysticism more often than not.

[Carl-Richard]

5 minutes ago, Nilsi said:

absolutely. i would even claim it comes with a pinch of mysticism more often than not.

I would too actually ;D When the cultural average is materialist-reductionist, almost any step away from that will bring you closer to mysticism, certainly when it's towards a holistic perspective. It's just that the strong equal sign is a bit much.

Edited May 30 by Carl-Richard

[zurew]

I think most people on this forum has very differing and vague views on tier 1 and tier 2 . 

"agrees with me" - at least tier 2

"disagrees with me" - definitely tier 1

 

Imagine doing a poll about this. Take 25 people that most forum members know about and then have them sort those 25 people into Tier 1 and Tier 2 boxes. I think the results would wildly differ.

Edited May 30 by zurew

[enchanted]

22 hours ago, Peter Zemskov said:

Currently, there's a clear trend of rising authoritarianism around the world. In the West this can easily be seen in the increase in popularity of hard right populist parties and politicians within democratic countries, such as Trump in the US, AfD in Germany, National Rally in France, etc. The interesting part is that many people seem to be actively rooting against democracy in favour of a downright authoritarian right wing government that is going to uphold traditional values. 

While I think that the reduction of the living standard acts as a trigger, I also believe there's another deep underlying root cause to this problem that often goes unadressed: a lack of vision in western democracies. After we have been liberated from the old collective identities, we seem to be left in this nihilistic void with nothing to pursue, defend and fight for. As a result people feel extremely alienated, directionless and desperately cling to old identities, even if deep down they know that they're just constructions. They simply don't know what to do with their freedom and want to bow to some sort of strong ideology that is going to give them concrete instructions on how to live life. 

I think that in order to solve this crisis we need to create a new vision of where we are moving towards as a society, a new, higher consciousness identity that will give us a sense of direction. But how do we combine freedom with some kind of collective high consciousness identity? How can we obtain social cohesion without going back to reactionary brainwashing? What new forms of society should we strive for beyond liberal democracy in its current form?

Trump emboldened the nationalistic racist assholes around the world. This is why Trump is such an existential threat to world stability.

Make sure you vote where you can. 

[strika]

8 minutes ago, enchanted said:

Trump emboldened the nationalistic racist assholes around the world. This is why Trump is such an existential threat to world stability.

Make sure you vote where you can. 

I'll take racism over death.