Nordic Ideology: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book Two

by Hanzi Freinacht

We live in an increasingly global, transnational, digitized, postindustrial world-system, with an increasing number of “disruptive technologies”, i.e. inventions that redefine people’s lives dramatically. But we lack a corresponding global, transnational, digitized, postindustrial system of governance. So the system goes tits up and creates large pockets of economic, social and cultural losers around the world: the working and middle lower classes in affluent societies, the exploited poor in poorly governed and failed states, the animals suffering under industrial farming, climate change refugees and other desperate migrants, the disenfranchised urban immigrant populations in ghettos and banlieues, the tribal and traditionalist religious populations who suffer from confusion and alienation, the fish and other aquatic animals, the biosphere itself. But these issues would be self-regulating if the populations, economic agents and leaders of the world were up to pace with recent developments. The crux is that we are not. That’s the issue. That’s what’s wrong with the world. We lack a cultural sphere and understanding of our time, an overarching narrative that matches this new economic and technological order of the world. We, as global humanity, lack the corresponding value meme. And we display behaviors that are unsustainable and downright destructive, given the current systemic