Reading yet another intelligent, knowledgeable article on such an important topic is deeply distressing to me. Why can't these any of these authors take the next step to seriously considering a way to move humanity forward from the plateau we have been on since Liberalism (the political meta-ideology of humanism) got as far as it could go in the middle of the 1960's? Why not try to make Medium the springboard for a further advance for humanity?

At this point Liberalism's conceptual and practical limitations are generating a crisis of governance in Liberal nations. Most fundamentally, they are being being rent asunder by the conflict between the individualistic impetus that follows from our existence as separate and independent beings with respect to one another and the socialistic impetus that follows our social nature as beings who live together in groups.

Those nations that have emphasized the latter are generally doing better, but that dualism provides the wedge needed for opportunistic 'populists' to create the political mayhem needed to make nations ungovernable. That is a first step in the process for replacing one form of governance (in this case, democracy) with another (tyranny of one kind or another).

A path forward for 'humanistic' governance does exist. I have wandered--and wondered--along it.

if curious: "Alright, Already" (here in Medium, but not behind the paywall)