The elite and the people

While I am sympathetic to the goals of this article, abstract principle, metamodern or otherwise, in itself is far from enough. To defeat capitalism will require a multitude of ordinary people getting active, not an elite that hands down the next best model. The cognitive science of framing demands that emotional appeal is necessary, which influences people far more than models and theories. Such emotional manipulation of ordinary people is how the capitalists got our unconscious acceptance in the first place. We can turn that around and liberate we the people if we are willing to learn from them.

"We need new rules and new representation. Hell, we need a new game and a new civil society."

And the suggested 'new game' is a rehydrated capitalism? It doesn't sound like the collaborative commons to me. It might be part of the solution, hence policies like Bernie Sanders and AOC. But the CC demands much more if it is to be a 'new game.'

"George Soros is magnanimous, I’ll give him that, but he needs to become more metamodern while he’s still alive. He could start by funding metamodern and abstraction research and policy. We need to resolve abstract capitalism to address concrete problems. Time to bring it back down to earth. [...] Concrete capitalism would rehydrate our cracked out social ecologies, so health and wealth can flourish. Peace and prosperity for all."