Metamodern Values Explained | Dr. Daniel P. Görtz | TEDxTUBerlin

How do you know if you have the right values? How do you know if they make sense?
We believe, that we all have the best values. But we can’t all be right somehow.
The modern society believes in rationality, science, progress and the dignity of humanity.
Modern life solved several problems, but produced some itself: Sustainability, Rapid Inequality and Mental Health Issues.

[allancoffee]

5:45 modern values
10:25 postmodern -
14:39 metamodern -

[nyrtzi]

To me the postmodern have never looked like they abandoned a faith in progress. They're giving more vibes of grasping onto it even harder like a bunch of revolutionaries that are doing whatever they can to grab power thinking that it'll help make their dreams come true in order to have progress at any cost necessary.

[EnWordHunter]

Can we ditch the word "modern" from future philosophical movements? It takes up so much typographical space...

[lidu]

I cringe at anything in the area of "the latest step of development will lead you to OUR ideology which is of course the BEST and every rational human WILL subscribe to it."

[TheSpiralLab]

I think the problem with this analysis is that vast communities of people, especially in the us, halve pre-modern values. For example US evangelicals largely reject modernity, much less post-modernity.

[betty]

take the positive aspects, discard the negative ones from both the ages and assimilate/synthesize them to bring in a cultural change/turn in tandem with the generation/era you live in and you get metamodernism! only the term is novel, not the idea behind it. the particulars change with the context and era, but the general idea remains the same and tbh, it is the need of every era otherwise we get stuck and more chaos ensues. always in flux. balance is the key they say.

[DarkMoonDroid]

0:08 I love Daniel.
And I love TED.
But because of your intro, I will never - *_NEVER_* - click on another XTUBerlin again.
Ever.
💣👂💥😖🦻

[ramanspeedballof]

I'd like to ask. When is Ted himself going to talk?

[nicholastitus]

“Modern values solved epidemics and war and state police oppression.” 🔮

[HitomiAyumu]

So much fluff. Good god, this speech could have been 5 minutes.

[joubinzargarbashi]

TEDx, your intro volume compared to video itself is too loud!! please fix it.

[yupisaid]

Take a shot every time he says 'values'.

[cobyleebrooks]

would have loved a practical example of a synthesis of conflicting worldviews. say, on an issue like abortion as conjoined to human rights.

[MrBilalsabbagh]

great talk, simple language and good content

[abbichoa]

i've just got this thought finished in my mind by my mind today, a few hours ago i said it to my gf. All what i said is what Dr Daniel said. Looking forward to talk with you Dr!

[eskelCz]

Modern values are fine, it's just that our deepest animal nature doesn't fit them very well. Few selfish/sociopathic but powerful people can spoil the whole effort, leaving us with long-lived systems standing on bad incentives. Therefore it's still a jungle, just way more complex.

[cardenioscouse]

One feature of Modernism was that it was the logical response to the Enlightenment but many modern artists were in the Counter Enlightenment tradition. This was achieved by exploring non-western cultures, questioning the role of progress, he rise of 20th Century chaos and Einstein's theories of relativism.

[samantanweer]

The postmodern position does leave us directionless...one doesn't know what to value in life ; whether or not to trust ourselves, our language, our own identity. it leaves us with no choice but to be ironical about just about everything ...then where will "meaning" come from in life ? Is there nothing to aspire to? Nothing worthwhile to achieve ? Is all progress meaningless?...I think it is at such points that recourse can be taken from a more synthesized value system..

[jamesbarlow]

Why haven't you really explained anything (again, as usual)?😂

[AJDelRose]

I thought he did a good job describing modernity. And only further gives me the conclusion that modernity is not progress. What many now call progress I see as the de-evolution of culture to that of the mass man. The values of the enlightenment have lead us to meaningless lives. The ultimate conclusion to mass egalitarian is the leveling of the world for nefarious purposes those purposes ultimately created to homogenize the world to produce more widgets and items we don’t even need. For now let us leave modern man to their “truths”. I say this now not to be concerned about the capitalist bourgeoise but for when things become serious at a global scale and for those men who know and can form into an unshakable bloc.