The Post-Liberal Synthesis. The founding essay of the Governance Futurism project.

Governance Futurism was kicked off back in 2018 with this essay, calling for the self-conscious deconstruction of western ideologies and a survey of the global noosphere for insight that could become a new hegemonic worldview that could solve our considerable governance problems. It proposes the radical program of treating ideology as an engineering artifact while also actually believing in something and trying to design a better society in a responsible way. Things have progressed quite a bit since then and the essay shows its age, but the fundamental idea here is very strong and still only somewhat developed. This could probably use a tighter restatement and some discussion for how it fits into our recent discussions of the esoteric/esoteric problem in political philosophy, and the legitimate role of philosophy in society if any.

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> This could probably use a tighter restatement and some discussion for how it fits into our recent discussions of the esoteric/esoteric problem in political philosophy ...

Agree. On a superficial level, I would drop the "post-liberal" label.

On a deeper level, taking into account the exoteric/esoteric (ideology/philosophy) would make this sharper. One thing about that is that you need to be thoughtful about where to publish it. My sense is that Palladium is supposed to be an exoteric publication, so it probably wouldn't make sense to expose the sharper vision there.

>I would drop the "post-liberal" label.

Yes. "Post-Liberal" rapidly became a useless label colonized by insincere pseudo-movements.

>Palladium is supposed to be an exoteric publication

Yes. I think that is its role. It is trying (or should be) to develop the new legitimate public ideology.