| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 430 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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Contributions to political science |
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Contributions to political science.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- A Note on Style and Criteria -- A Note on Sources and Their Uses -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Audience -- 1.2 The Turmoil We Are in -- 1.3 The Yellow Brick Road -- 1.4 Uniqueness of This Book -- 1.5 Presentation Method -- 1.6 The United States as a Paradigm -- References (all accessed 15-29 November 2022) -- Chapter 2: What Is Promoting Human Extinction? -- 2.1 About This Chapter -- 2.1.1 Scope -- 2.1.2 Rationale for Method -- 2.1.3 Rationale for Categories -- 2.1.4 Sourcing -- 2.2 The Categories -- 2.2.1 Individual |
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2.2.1.1 Alienation and Identity -- 2.2.1.2 The Liberal Democratic Response: Identity Politics -- 2.2.1.3 Health -- Health Care Overall -- Mental Health -- Substance Abuse -- Nutritional Compromise -- 2.2.1.4 Education and Lack of Basic Knowledge -- 2.2.1.5 Work -- Losing Oneself at Work -- Types and Conditions of Work Environments -- 2.2.2 Society -- 2.2.2.1 Social Institutional Decay -- Income Stratification: The Consequences -- And the Proletarians, the Bulk of Society? -- General Flaws in the Governing Document, the Constitution -- A Constitutional Action Plan of the Dark Variety |
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2.2.2.2 Infrastructure -- 2.2.3 Environment: Natural -- 2.2.3.1 Climate Change/Global Warming -- 2.2.3.2 Resource Depletion -- 2.2.3.3 Environmental Degradation and Major Reasons for It -- 2.2.4 Environment: Artificial -- 2.2.4.1 Ethos, Ethics, and Morals -- 2.2.4.2 Philosophy and Ideology -- 2.2.4.3 Telecommunications Vulnerabilities -- 2.2.4.4 Artificial Intelligences -- 2.2.4.5 Knowledge Quality -- Documentation -- Pseudoscience and on the Borderlands of Science -- Information Quality, Peer Review, and ̀̀Fake News ́́ -- 2.2.4.6 Socioeconomics: Mergers and Acquisitions |
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2.2.4.7 Technological Complexity -- 2.2.4.8 Overpopulation -- 2.3 Other Problems -- 2.4 The Prison Planet -- 2.5 Summary of Problem Areas -- References (all accessed 15-29 November 2022) -- Chapter 3: Responses to Social Problems -- 3.1 Power -- 3.2 From Zero to Infinity in a Hierarchy -- 3.3 Archies, Ocracies and Isms -- 3.4 Philosophical Isms -- 3.4.1 Libertarianism -- 3.4.2 Authoritarianism -- 3.4.3 Totalitarianism -- 3.4.4 Statism -- 3.4.5 Nationalism -- 3.4.6 Populism -- 3.5 Structural ̀̀Isms ́́ -- 3.5.1 Capitalism -- 3.5.2 Fascism -- 3.5.3 National Socialism -- 3.5.4 Americanism |
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3.5.5 Socialism -- 3.6 Hierarchal Types -- 3.6.1 Anarchy -- 3.6.2 Democracy -- 3.6.3 Liberal Democracy -- 3.6.4 Republic -- 3.6.5 Oligarchy -- 3.6.6 Plutocracy: From Wiktionary -- 3.6.7 Aristocracy: From Wiktionary -- 3.6.8 Meritocracy: From Wiktionary -- 3.6.9 Monarchy: From Wiktionary -- 3.6.10 Theocracy: From Wiktionary -- 3.6.11 Autocracy: From Wiktionary -- 3.7 Toward the Etiology -- References (all accessed 15-29 November 2022) -- Chapter 4: How these Conditions Came to be -- 4.1 Alas, the Isms and Ocracies dont́ Function -- 4.2 Some History of the Problems and the Responses |
| Summary |
This book presents solutions to problems that are total and based on thinking about how and why humans have organized themselves. It discusses how to avoid the now well-documented Holocene Extinction, propelled by climate change, wars, resource depletion, desertification, degrading knowledge quality, famine, and deterioration of societies overall. It explains why we cannot respond effectively with hedonistic, incompetent, corrupt, and anarchistic "liberal democracy" and why neither personality cult regimes can suffice. The book offers a model of an organic social structure embodying a collective consciousness of communitarianism and Platonic-style ethos. Putting an emphasis on the re-establishment of Classical Greek virtue, it offers solutions to resolve identity politics, alienation, and meritocracy. While doing so, the author opposes the "everyone is equal" ideology to govern the section of policymakers, instead circumscribing "rights" in terms of responsibilities, prioritizing education and training to carry forth the ethos of valuing truth above materialism, and developing Durkheim's social brain via a new discipline, "sociointelligence". The book goes on to explain how underpinning these elements is a comprehensive elucidation of often misunderstood words like "liberty", "freedom", "authoritarianism", and "democracy". All of these areas are arranged and combined in uniquely describing the organic society the author deems necessary to avoid human extinction. As a result, the book presents a new organicity, where the emerging transhumanism seeks to transcend hydrocarbon-based life with humanly-constructed life. This book will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars of political science, philosophy, and the social sciences interested in a better understanding of complexity, democratic theory, Holocene Extinction, organic thinking, and meritocratic societies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 16, 2023) |
| Subject |
Human ecology.
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Sustainability.
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Society 5.0.
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human ecology.
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Human ecology
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Society 5.0
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Sustainability
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3031254449 |
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9783031254444 |
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