Rather quietly, practically totally outside mainstream media, a decentralized and diverse movement is seemingly forming from individual thinkers, a few organizations and alternative media outlets, mostly connected only by their underlying meta-goal:

Saving humanity from itself.

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This page shall serve as a starting point for curious minds, listing the various communities this movement is condensing from - plus a range of related sources.

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I, Marcus Gabler - and thus °MILLE PLATEAUX - subscribe to and support this movement of reason and empathy that is needed more than ever in light of disruptive tendencies and 21st century challenges such as:
 

• post-truth politics/tendencies

• rising inequality

• dehumanization (eg. through social media, digital transformation)

• exponential technology

• unsustainability

• etc.

There is a growing awareness that all man-made problems share systematic roots: A rivalrous economic system and inherited human behavior mismatching today's societal environment. Rather than viewing individual issues, this movement refers to the "Meta- Crisis" as the underlying problem. 

 

°MILLE PLATEAUX also is on the move - not only artistically and technologically, but also intellectually. I hope to contribute my share of critical thinking, stoicism, evolutionary psychology, moral objectivism and irrationality awareness (eg. cognitive biases, tribalism, hypergamy...) . Plus a healthy dose of pragmatism.

I am aware the shift to metamodernism means a breakup with °MILLE PLATEAUX's post-modern tradition, manifested even in our very name. But metamodernism is not anti-post-modernism, it is post-post-modernism, seeing a bigger picture than it's predecessors. And the 21st century needs applicable and relatable thinking more than rather abstract philosophy.