Managing Complexity Through Social Intelligence: Foundations of the Modern Organic Corporatist State

This book offers solutions to problems facing humanity, such as climate change, wars, resource depletion, desertification, and degradation of knowledge quality. It proposes an organic social structure embodying a collective consciousness of communitarianism and Platonic-style ethos and opposes the everyone is equal ideology to govern policymakers. It also emphasizes the re-establishment of Classical Greek virtue, identity politics, alienation, and meritocracy, and develops Durkheim's social brain via a new discipline, sociointelligence. The book aims to avoid human extinction and presents a "new organicity" where transhumanism seeks to transcend hydrocarbon-based life with humanly-constructed life.

Format: Hardback
Length: 430 pages
Publication date: 08 March 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This book delves into comprehensive solutions to complex problems, drawing from a deep understanding of how and why humans have organized themselves. It explores strategies to mitigate the imminent threat of the Holocene Extinction, driven by factors such as climate change, wars, resource depletion, desertification, deteriorating knowledge quality, famine, and the overall decline of societies. The author critically examines the limitations of hedonistic, incompetent, corrupt, and anarchistic liberal democracy and highlights the shortcomings of personality cult regimes. Instead, the book presents a model of an organic social structure embodying a collective consciousness of communitarianism and a Platonic-style ethos. It emphasizes the re-establishment of Classical Greek virtue as a means to address identity politics, alienation, and meritocracy.

The author challenges the notion of "everyone is equal" as a guiding principle for policymakers and advocates for a rights-based approach that emphasizes responsibilities and education. By developing a new discipline called sociointelligence, the author aims to nurture the social brain and foster a culture of valuing truth above materialism. The book further elucidates commonly misunderstood words like liberty, freedom, authoritarianism, and democracy, providing a comprehensive framework for understanding the organic society necessary to prevent human extinction.

In conclusion, this book offers a transformative perspective on complex problems and presents a roadmap for building a sustainable and harmonious human society. It appeals to students, researchers, and scholars of political science, philosophy, and the social sciences who are interested in exploring the intricacies of complexity, democratic theory, and the future of humanity.

Weight: 852g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031254437
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023