{"id":44638,"date":"2023-02-10T11:29:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T10:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=44638"},"modified":"2023-02-10T11:29:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T10:29:17","slug":"survival-of-the-richest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/survival-of-the-richest\/","title":{"rendered":"Survival of the Richest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Five mysterious billionaires invited media theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a private conversation at a desert resort. They wanted to know how to survive the inevitable catastrophe that they knew was coming \u2013 environmental meltdown, political, social, and economic chaos, and perhaps worse.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Would New Zealand or Alaska fare any better? How soon could they expect to live on Mars? One asked, \u00abHow do I maintain authority over my security force after \u2039the Event\u203a?\u00bb Rushkoff\u00a0realised\u00a0they didn\u2019t know who they were talking to. He was a media and technology theorist, not a techno-utopian futurist. He tried persuading them to invest in relationships and communities, advocating for partnership and solidarity. Didn\u2019t they realize that they had the power to make a positive difference?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his recent book, \u2039Survival of the Richest,\u203a Rushkoff explores the roots and manifestations of what he calls, \u2039the mindset\u203a that drives these \u2039techno-oligarchs\u203a and much of the culture downstream from them. It\u2019s essentially an atheistic and materialistic scientism, that relies entirely on technology to solve problems and views human relationships as market phenomena. Its adherents want to become \u2039meta\u203a and overcome any human \u2039disorder\u203a by retreating to the metaverse, Mars, or dreams of immortality. Winning means protecting oneself from the damage they\u2019re doing. Rushkoff came to realize that these billionaires are the actual losers. We too are doomed if we rely on them or their logic. Instead of linear, accelerated growth and endless technological breakthroughs, we need a return to the cyclical wisdom of nature, which is indeed limitless when not overloaded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image<\/strong> Wolfgang Hasselmann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five mysterious billionaires invited media theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a private conversation at a desert resort. They wanted to know how to survive the inevitable catastrophe that they knew was coming \u2013 environmental meltdown, political, social, and economic chaos, and perhaps worse. Would New Zealand or Alaska fare any better? How soon could they expect to live on Mars? One asked, \u00abHow do I maintain authority over my security force after \u2039the Event\u203a?\u00bb Rushkoff\u00a0realised\u00a0they didn\u2019t know who they were talking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17162,"featured_media":44233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8809,2515,8790],"tags":[11289,8803,8799],"class_list":["post-44638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-world","category-nachricht","category-society-en","tag-2023-3-4-en","tag-news-en-2","tag-worldwide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}