On the web, spaces open to make experiences of identity and collectivity possible again. The web, thus, is tribalized

stabilizing anchors of ritual

... another reason for the crisis of community, which is a crisis of democracy, is digitalization. Digital communication redirects the flows of communication. Information is spread without forming a public sphere. It is produced in private spaces and distributed to private spaces. The web does not create a public.  This has highly deleter... See more

Truth illuminates the world, while information lives off the attraction of surprise, pulling us into a permanent frenzy of fleeting moments.

Bits of information provide neither meaning nor orientation. They do not congeal into a narrative. They are purely additive. From a certain point onward, they no longer inform — they deform. They can even darken the world. This puts them in opposition to truth. Truth illuminates the world, while information lives off the attraction of surprise, pul... See more

Everything that binds and connects is disappearing. There are hardly any shared values or symbols, no common narratives that unite people.

Today’s terror of short-termism — which, with fatal consequences, we mistake for freedom — destroys the practices that require time.

Truth, the provider of meaning and orientation, is also a narrative. We are very well informed, yet somehow we cannot orient ourselves.

In a world that is completely without rituals and wholly profane, all that is left are consumption and the satisfaction of needs.