The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One (Metamodern Guides 1)

1/27/25 updating to add that i think this book is full of fucking shit this is the white man's latest attempt to impose yet another dogshit ideology on the world but this time its woke cuz they discovered social justice and spirituality!!!! meditation!! Pyschedelics!!! bro someone please just fucking kill me this is same colonialist shit theyve been doing for centuries but their raging cultural superiority complex is packaged in social justice scientific lingo and bullshit technocratic utopian ideals. bring back honest racists this is somehow more disgusting. insidious white man bullshit literally makes me wanna kms combust throw up and stuff myself back in the fucking womb
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one day i will write a more in depth review but the other 2 show more star review is very on point, this book has some good ideas but its vision of a "metamodern politics" is so dogshit and out of touch white man that i cant get behind anything higher than 2 stars. its whole ideology is basically totalitarianism where self appointed "high effective value meme" people (ie. anyone who subscribes to the thinking in this book, also what kind of stupid fucking phrase is that) lead the rest of the world to a woke paradise and solve all of the worlds problems through a mass metamodernist awakening. like bro are u fucking kidding. same vibes as effective altruism and scientology, sort of cultish tech-broy "for the good of the people" but ultimately self-serving. unfortunately there are some problems we cant just self help and psychology our way out of and we actually need to reflect on our problems instead of resorting to different versions of the same solution. i actually liked a lot of the ideas in the book like privileges associated with cultural capital + criticisms of how cynical and useless postmodernism is + using complexity/depth to measure thinking + other stuff i cant remember off the top of my head, but it just fails so spectacularly at its goal of creating a political framework that it makes me wanna rip my hair out. if it wasnt fucking stupid maybe a 4ish star read show less

Very cringy introduction, but surprisingly good content