The Spiritual Scientist Podcast · Mick Young

The dialectic of enlightenment, Technocracy, an academic's journey through the covid years

·1 hr 53 min·5 clips
Technocracy is rule by experts, a system where decisions about your most minute daily actions were made by a top-down power structure during COVID.
Poet-scholar Daniel Polikoff discusses his two-volume series 'Reset or Renaissance,' which uses the lens of anthroposophy, Romanticism, and American transcendentalism to analyze the COVID years as a manifestation of technocracy. He traces the philosophical roots of this control system back to the Enlightenment's mechanistic worldview and proposes a spiritual alternative grounded in the work of Rudolf Steiner and Rilke.

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Daniel Polikoff offers a patient, wide-angled account of technocracy, transhumanism, and the language of body, soul, and spirit.

Daniel Polikoff offers a patient, wide-angled account of technocracy, transhumanism, and the language of body, soul, and spirit. His Great Reset or Renaissance books frame the discussion around what happened during the COVID years and, in the sequel, why it happened.

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For a slow, serious look at COVID, technocracy, soul, and the machinery beneath them all.

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