How To Live In A Dying Technocracy with Nathan Levine | Danube Politics

Metaphysics is back. 

That’s the word from Nathan Levine, author of the hugely popular Substack, The Upheaval, and a Visiting Fellow at the Danube Institute. 

Nathan is one of the most crisp thinkers in meta-politics today, and here he goes into depth with the DI’s Head of Research, Calum Nicholson. on what we can expect, as the old structures, the liberal order that has presided since 1945, begins to break down. 

As he points out, the fables we told ourselves about rule of law, human rights, central planning, neoliberalism, and the supremacy of the individual, are all beginning to warp and fold beneath the pressures of multiple simultaneous revolutions: in tech, in communications, and in the functioning of democracy itself. 

Yet what is  to come still has not quite been born. We are in an interregnum, between worlds. The technocratic age, the scientistic age, is fading away, and what comes after will have to rely more on ‘magic’, on the right-brain, the Gestalt understanding of who we are.

But if we can no longer rely on plans and machines to fulfil our dreams, what even are we? 

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