Societal Realms

[Hastur]

I've been looking into the thinking of the conservative thinker Hans L Zetterberg and his book project The Many-Splendored Society.

One thing that has helped me navigate the world is the division of our society into different realms. He argues and I agree that a lot of problems that emerge in society comes when one of the realms gains preeminence and start exercising influence on one or more of the others. For example, the welfare state has Morality influencing Polity, The Climate debate has Polity invading Science and Islamism has religion taking over almost everything. There are plenty of examples. Here is a map of the realms so you know what I'm on about.

Periodic Table of Societal Realms


If you want to learn more, his project can be found here: http://www.zetterberg.org/

The first volume of the series:
http://www.zetterberg.org/MSSupdates/Vo ... June03.pdf

Hans passed away in 2014 but he was almost finished.

[Martin Hash]

That's going to take some contemplation...

[heydaralon]

I've been looking into the thinking of the conservative thinker Hans L Zetterberg and his book project The Many-Splendored Society.

One thing that has helped me navigate the world is the division of our society into different realms. He argues and I agree that a lot of problems that emerge in society comes when one of the realms gains preeminence and start exercising influence on one or more of the others. For example, the welfare state has Morality influencing Polity, The Climate debate has Polity invading Science and Islamism has religion taking over almost everything. There are plenty of examples. Here is a map of the realms so you know what I'm on about.

Periodic Table of Societal Realms


If you want to learn more, his project can be found here: http://www.zetterberg.org/

The first volume of the series:
http://www.zetterberg.org/MSSupdates/Vo ... June03.pdf

Hans passed away in 2014 but he was almost finished.

I'm glad he finished the Interstellar soundtrack before he died! His work on the Inception and Gladiator was pretty good too.