Brendan Graham Dempsey | Metamodern Spirituality | Rebuilding Meaning (w/ Ellie Hain) @BrendanGrahamDempsey | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
Social imaginarian Ellie Hain joins me to talk about her new project, Rebuilding Meaning, a multi-layered endeavor to rethink meaning, value, and the sacred in a way that can help bring color and vibrancy back to existence and cut through the proliferation of bullshit in modern life. We talk about moving from paradigm thinking to the crafting of ideology, the nature and reality of the meaning crisis, what is meant by "the sacred," the idea of "the void," social norms vs. emergent value, and what it looks like to architect new cultural realities for the future.

0:00 Introduction
0:58 From Mapping Social Imaginaries to Articulating Ideologies
7:36 New Myths
10:30 Is There Actually a Meaning Crisis?
17:01 The Sacred, the Profane, and the Meaningful
22:46 The Void: Chaos and Possibility
28:34 Rigid Social Norms vs. Emergent Autonomy
35:10 Creating New Systems
41:37 Follow-Through
46:32 Imagining a Beautiful Future
55:25 A Values-Driven Pluralism

RebuildingMeaning.org
"Exit the Void": youtube.com/watch?v=BqB-1ABZJSM
Joe Edelman's 'Rebuilding Society on Meaning': youtube.com/watch?v=hZpKdfbrd6o

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