Navigating Mediocrity and Personal Growth

Political philosopher and sociologist Daniel Görtz is a leader of "the Nordic school" of metamodernism. He co-authored The Listening Society and The Nordic Ideology under the pseudonym Hanzi Freinacht. Today we discuss his new “self-help” book with the working title “12 Better Rules for Life (and beyond).”

Topics include:

* The subtle art of sublime mediocrity

* Why Rule #2 is “Fuck like a beast”

* Why Jesus was right and how secular people can learn from that

* What is post-postmodernism?

* The life-changing practice of Rogerian listening

* A necessary steelman of critical race theory and modern feminism

* Why feminist forums descend into language-policing

* How to improve your default levels of contentment (from a 7 to an 8)

* Where Jordan Peterson went wrong with post-modernism

* Why playfulness is essential

* A big spoiler on the book (and a key secret to living well)

Resources:

* https://metamoderna.org/

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