Nordic Ideology: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book Two

by Hanzi Freinacht

we live with truths that cannot be told to our nearest and dearest? How large inconsistencies and sources of self-deceit can be detected in our moral reasoning and actions? How many of us do things that are counter to our moral intuitions in our professional lives? How many of us feel a pervasive lack of meaning? How afraid are we of death, and how does this fear shape our lives? How many have strong, transformative experiences of a spiritual nature, and how often, and who? How many of us feel genuinely identified with the ecosphere, future generations and the animals? How many people get stuck in untreated traumas, so that deep wounds are never healed and greater inner depths never fully integrated into our personalities? How many live our lives with a nagging sense of anxiety in the background (Book One: subjective states 6 and 7) and how many live with a general sense of safety and basic goodness (subjective state 8)?[92] To what extent do we define ourselves, our identities, in terms of material wealth and worldly success versus in terms of inner qualities? How do we reason about the highest ethical principles and how do we relate to paradoxes and dilemmas? How many of us are on serious spiritual paths, or otherwise trained in introspection, meta-cognition, inner self-scrutiny and useful forms of meditation?