Community Quote by Hanzi Freinacht

“We simply haven’t advanced to that stage of thinking—a stage where you see that the inner development of each person is intrinsically connected to the development of society as a whole.” quote by Hanzi Freinacht — Download Open image

““We simply haven’t advanced to that stage of thinking—a stage where you see that the inner development of each person is intrinsically connected to the development of society as a whole.””

Hanzi Freinacht

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“Polarization (and Trumpism) is in itself a kind of political crisis. But all of this would be ﬁne in the long run, if the stakes weren’t so high and the time frames so narrow. As a world-system, we really don’t have the time for Trumpism and the like. Global warming and the rapid changes pertaining to the internet age won’t…

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“Let’s return to the main argument. People are hurting as hell. It matters. We should do something to make them happier, if we can.”

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“Our current society is designed to achieve growth of industrial output and redistributing its spoils. Future society must expand upon today’s society’s way of…

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“At the micro-sociological level, most humans are doing better than ever. Yet there is so much confusion, suffering and bitter resentment. How many beautiful, privileged people have I not heard whisper to me, late at night, that if it were up to them, they would never have been born; that they are angry with the world; that they were let…

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“Ours is a world full of self-deceit, my friend. But it is at the same time a world full of sincere truth seeking, scientific…

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“People need irony in order to build interpersonal trust based on self-knowledge, humor and critical thinking.”

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“Radically new spiritual movements are cropping up, notably the “atheist” practice of Syntheism. And musicians are creating stranger and stranger electrical sounds and rhythms, mixing them with strained voices, as if to underscore just how mysterious, yet peculiarly familiar, it all seems. And fashionable, tattooed young female DJ s play that music on the dance ﬂoor, and we dance under…

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“The idea of the individual is actually an ingenious solution to a difficult social-philosophical problem: Should we focus on society as a whole, or…

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“As voters, many of us often recognize that we cannot know the answers to all the complicated societal questions. And frankly, neither can the politicians reasonably be expected to. But what we can know with some reliability is that if politicians are more humble in their opinions—and more open to new information and thereby more intelligent in their dialogue and…

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“The marriage of irony and sincerity helps us to take the perspectives of others: the racist, the exaggerated feminist, the conservative. Each ironic position…

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“Building—or cultivating—the next and deeper layer of social welfare requires the ongoing posing of two questions: How can good conditions and prerequisites for human…

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“We are witnessing the rise of the digitalized, globalized, transnational, postindustrial society—and its discontents. The nationalist resurgence is only that: the outdated, the outgunned,…

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