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Friends,

Every day, we feel the political pulse through our lives: whether we’re stopped for a speeding ticket, thinking about who to vote for in an election, witnessing international turmoil on our screens, or hearing that a loved one feels frightened by encroaching state violence. 

Politics presents itself as the organization of society so that you and I can function together in the world.

Essentially, it is a question of rights – these are the “rights” that the state says it offers or grants us, with the generally unspoken justification that politics organizes society so that people won’t harm each other or “take advantage of the system.”

It is supposed to be about equality. Of course, I don’t have to make the case that the political is not working. The political has, for most people, degraded into an obstruction to everyday life. 

“Our era accumulates powers and imagines itself as rational. But no one recognizes these powers as their own. Nowhere is there any entry to adulthood. The only thing that happens is that this long restlessness sometimes eventually evolves into a routinized sleep. Because no one ceases to be kept under guardianship, the point is not to recognize that some people live more or less poorly than others but that we all live in ways that are out of our control. “

– Guy Debord

Welcome to the third episode in my series, A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY, where I look at how we can improve society by looking for its spiritual heart(s).

On the previous episode, AEWCH 318, I talked about the spiritual heart of culture. And on the first episode, AEWCH 317, I gave an introduction to the series, and a short review of the inspiration for it, Rudolf Steiner’s concept of social threefolding,which understands human activity as living in three spheres – culture, politics, and economics.

Contrary to the belief that politics is “about” voting and political parties and protests – or even democracy – I find that when we engage with time differently, we can find a hidden layer of togetherness in politics. And it is from that hidden layer that we should build a real politics from. But how do we think about it without resorting to delusion or passivity?

Let’s consider it together, friends.

Looking forward to this new spiritual society with you,
CH