What’s Happened to Consensus Reality? | Jon Askonas

Hidden Forces

Demetri Kofinas

Government, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 299 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jon Askonas a professor of politics at the Catholic University of America where he works on the connections between the republican tradition, technology, and national security. Jon is the author of a new series of essays for the New Atlantis titled “Reality: A Postmortem,” where he looks at the forces that have conspired to break consensus reality, and what it means for humanity and the world.

The last few years in many Western countries have been characterized by a growing sense of bewilderment, anger, and distrust. Distrust in mainstream institutions, in each other, and in ourselves—in our own capacity to apprehend reality and come to consensus about the nature of the world around us.

Jon and Demetri spend the first hour of their conversation discussing the sources of this fragmentation, the disembodied self, and the ways in which the modern age shares more in common with the enchanted world of the middle ages than it does the secular age that has defined consensus reality in the Western world for most of the last 500 years.

In the second hour, which is available to premium subscribers, they look at the pervasive effect of social media on the news business, the problem of truth and how to find it in this world of fractured realities, and what can be done to fix the problem.

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Episode Recorded on 02/27/2023

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? My name is Dmitri Kaffinas and you're listening to Hidden Forces,
0:06.0	a podcast that inspires investors, entrepreneurs and everyday citizens to challenge consensus narratives
0:14.0	and to learn how to think critically about the systems of power shaping our world.
0:19.0	The last few years in many Western countries have been characterized by a growing sense of the
0:24.0	wilderness, anger and distrust. Distrust in mainstream institutions, in each other,
0:30.0	and in ourselves, in our own capacity to apprehend reality and come to consensus about the nature of the world around us.
0:38.0	What's driving this shift and the forces that have conspired to break consensus reality is the subject of today's conversation with my guest, John Askenas.
0:48.0	John and I spend the first hour of our conversation discussing the sources of this fragmentation, the disembodied self,
0:55.0	and the ways in which the modern age shares more in common with the enchanted world of the Middle Ages,
1:01.0	than it does the secular age that has defined consensus reality in the Western world for most of the last 500 years.
1:09.0	In the second hour, which is available to premium subscribers, we look at the pervasive effect of social media on the news business.
1:17.0	The problem of truth and how to find it in this world of fractured realities and what needs to be done and can be done in order to begin to address the problem.
1:27.0	You can find related podcasts to this one on this week's episode page at hiddenforces.io, where you can also access the second part of today's conversation by joining one of our three content tiers.
1:40.0	Here's your access to our premium feed, which you can use to listen to the second part of today's conversation on your mobile device using your favorite podcast app,
1:49.0	just like you're listening to this episode right now.
1:53.0	If you want to join in on the conversation and become a member of the Hidden Forces Genius Community, which includes Q&A calls with guests,
2:00.0	access to special research and analysis in-person events and dinners, you can also do that on our subscriber page.
2:08.0	And if you still have questions, feel free to send an email to infoathiddenforces.io and I or someone from our team will get right back to you.
2:19.0	And with that, please enjoy this deeply insightful and enlightening conversation with my guest, John Asconis.
2:29.0	John Asconis, welcome to Hidden Forces.
2:33.0	Thank you for having me on.
2:35.0	It's my pleasure having you on, John.
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