PLAY PODCASTS
#15 - Daniel Görtz | 12 Better Rules for Life

#15 - Daniel Görtz | 12 Better Rules for Life

The Metagame

November 21, 20221h 19m

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (api.substack.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Show Notes

Political philosopher and sociologist Daniel Görtz is a leader of "the Nordic school" of metamodernism. He co-authored The Listening Society and The Nordic Ideology under the pseudonym Hanzi Freinacht. Today we discuss his new “self-help” book with the working title “12 Better Rules for Life (and beyond).”

Topics include:

* The subtle art of sublime mediocrity

* Why Rule #2 is “Fuck like a beast”

* Why Jesus was right and how secular people can learn from that

* What is post-postmodernism?

* The life-changing practice of Rogerian listening

* A necessary steelman of critical race theory and modern feminism

* Why feminist forums descend into language-policing

* How to improve your default levels of contentment (from a 7 to an 8)

* Where Jordan Peterson went wrong with post-modernism

* Why playfulness is essential

* A big spoiler on the book (and a key secret to living well)

Resources:

* https://metamoderna.org/



This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themetagame.substack.com