How to Nurture Truth and Authenticity

In 2017, a small group of Scandinavian sociologists made some dramatic predictions about the future of social and political life. Their vision was given a name: political metamodernism. This ideology promised to outcompete capitalism, address climate change, and nurture the psychological welfare of the human animal and the well-being of non-human animals too.

Today, public interest has shifted from social progressivism to economics, due to the precarious relations between the Eastern and Western nations. Political philosophy is readjusting and economic philosophies are coming to serve us once again. This book, How to Nurture Truth and Authenticity, is just one component in this emergent political climate, and it is guided by two factors: truth and authenticity. These two factors are of paramount importance to nurturing both interpersonal and national commerce in the emergent political project.

After all, how can any one of us be genuinely authentic when the social and material condition calls for unprecedented unity? Estrangement is pronounced in many contemporaneous cultural and political narratives. We are pitted against each other-neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend, and relative against relative. Can there be any doubt that such a state of affairs obscures the possibility for genuine authenticity? By way of first economics philosophy, this book proposes a way forward, towards a truly original understanding of the emergent metamodern paradigm.

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