Religion of the Future
by Roberto Mangabeira Unger · first published 2014
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"A book about religion and a religious work in its own right, it proposes the content of a religion that can survive faith in a transcendent God and in life after death. According to this religion - the religion of the future - human beings can be more human by becoming more godlike, not just later, in another life or another time, but right now, on Earth and in their own lives."--Publishers website
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You may want to give "The Religion of the Future" by Roberto Mangabeira Unger a read. I'm nearly through with it, myself, and he lays forth many of the same thoughts present in this post while attempting to describe a new spirituality.
on “The Poison We Pick” ↗…Economy". I highly recommend it to anyone interested in a macro perspective of our economic transition as it stands now and where it can go. If you prefer more academic texts my favorite work of his is "The Religion of the Future" and I also enjoyed "The Singular Universe & the Reality of Time" that he co-wrote with the physicist Lee Smolin. His earlier works are good but less digestible and can be picked up from his lectures.…
on “The Knowledge Economy: A Critique of the Dominant View” ↗…necessary step towards ideal anarchy? I wonder how long the lessons of past mistakes would stick before they start being forgotten and start to be made once more. Maybe something like Roberto Unger's "religion of the future" (which also relies on automation to enable 'deep freedom') would have to spring up to soft-enforce a global set of values that would quell the rise of any oppressive government thinkers. Not sure, just…
on “Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun (1943)” ↗…galaxy so they can "uplift" us or any of the other nonsensical motivations usually given. [1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/one-man-thinking-cs-lewis_b_8... [2] His space trilogy. [3] Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future in particular has an interesting chapter or two about this. What I found particularly intriguing is the idea that the actual incidents are not actually new, with descriptions of historical parallels,…
on “US military has been observing ‘metallic orbs’ making extraordinary ‘maneuvers’” ↗