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The social group is broken down into atomized individuals who fight for their right to fulfillment via professional advancement or personal consumption. This system is often sold to us as freedom. Those competing individuals never find true autonomy, however, because they lack the social fabric in which to exercise it.

Douglas Rushkoff • Team Human

According to Hegel, human history was driven by a struggle for recognition. He argued that the only rational solution to the desire for recognition was universal recognition, in which the dignity of every human being was recognized.

Francis Fukuyama • Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

Following the end of the Cold War and the disappearance of a common threat, it has proved more difficult for Europe to maintain stability, democracy, and prosperity.

Richard Haass • The World

Classical Liberalism has had a good run. Now it’s about to get run over by a bus full of stupid “post-capitalist” political trends—the new socialism, the new nationalism, the new trade war mercantilism, and the new social media platforms that drive this bus.

P.J. O'Rourke • A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land

Not only is specialisation becoming a redundant method of understanding truth, it is also a poor strategy for survival – whether for the individual, an organisation, a society or indeed an entire species. Simply put, then, Homo sapiens run the severe risk of perishing within the next two centuries unless the mind is reconditioned to allow for a van

Waqas Ahmed • The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility

Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World

Peter Zeihan

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The theme of this book is the new revolution of power which is liberating individuals at the expense of the twentieth-century nation-state.

James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

In our period, new technology has been developed, but remains in need of a guiding philosophy

Eric Schmidt • The Age of AI: And Our Human Future

This history of neoliberalization and class formation, and the proliferating acceptance of the ideas of the Mont Pelerin Society as the ruling ideas of the time, makes for interesting reading when placed against the background of counter-arguments laid out by Karl Polanyi in 1944 (shortly before the Mont Pelerin Society was established). In a compl