Has democracy become an end in itself rather than a means to an end? Democracies have had a dismal start in the 21st century. Opinion surveys around the world show a counter-intuitive trend: Citizens of democratic nations are more pessimistic about the future of their countries than people living in…

Western political leaders have shown themselves to be incompetent and self-absorbed, but they are not suicidal In 2012, the American political scientist Graham T Allison argued that the US and China were on a collision course for war. …

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science, but man needs both. — Fritjof Capra In 1975, the American physicist Fitjof Capra published the first edition of his best-selling book The Tao of Physics. …

Fortunately, the Tao is easier to understand than quantum physics In 1975, the American physicist Fitjof Capra published the first edition of his best-selling book The Tao of Physics. Capra described the parallels between the ancient Chinese notion of Tao and the subatomic world of particles revealed by quantum physics. …

Three different perspectives on the world.

The re-emergence of the two Asian giants, China and India, is in fact a return to the historical norm In 1989, Francis Fukuyama published his widely cited paper “The End of History?” Fukuyama argued that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was a victory of liberal democracy over authoritarianism and…

Metamodernists see the culture wars raging in the Western world as a battle between modernist and postmodernist values Metamodernism, an intellectual movement that emerged in Europe about 10 years ago, has an ambitious goal: formulating a response to a world “that feels like it’s unraveling through climate change, culture war…

The diagram of the Four Quadrants is one of the pillars of the Integral Theory of the American philosopher Ken Wilber. The quadrant is a way of conceptualising the different dimensions of the human experience and the different domains of knowledge. …

Macoreconomists have developed a “bottleneck theory” for a monetary reset through the launch of Central Bank Digital Currencies. We could see a gradual (soft) reset, with analog and digital money temporarily coexisting. If the debt crisis gets out of control, we may see a “hard” (overnight) reset. A hard reset would be no fun. Paper assets could get a massive haircut as they pass through the bottleneck. The repricing of paper assets would impact everyone, especially the middle class. In the video, asset manager Matthew Pieperburg breaks down the probability of a hard reset.