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Confronting Modernity
- Modernity's emancipatory power has become its opposite, demanding humility.
- Humans aren't in control, and complex modern societies resemble nature.
Free Trade's Folly
- The 1990s' free trade absolutism demonstrates flawed axioms of societal function.
- Ancient Rome, despite grand projects, held an agnosticism about the world's workings, unlike modern arrogance from scientific progress.
Rise of Bottom-Up Organization
- The internet allows bottom-up association, challenging the nation-state's power, especially with declining faith in top-down organization.
- Web3/crypto offer costly social signals (like NFTs) enabling trust and reducing noise, fostering digital communitarianism.