In this century there's been a great break, an apocalypse, in which everything has become sleek, optimized, design has converged. Corporate brands look the same, products work the same, people look and work and act the same. Everything moves fast. Optimization encourages moving fast, never slowing down, getting as much out of every experience as possible in a certain material sense. The actualized world is obviously de-spiritualized. The modernist break, represented by Le Corbusier, for instance, rejected the classical and gothic traditions, rejected the pastoral, on the level of structure. Now something similar is happening to the structures of the mind and to the pathways of experience. Our mental structures are formed by DoorDash, Tinder, Uber, Pornhub, Amazon—quick hits of stuff and sensations.
Mutuality rather than command. I think it's very hard for people to imagine a world in which they may voluntarily join together and build things, rather than be forced to do so by economics or legal necessity. Loyalty to the local, of course, is the greatest threat to large-scale institutions and power structures. Power centers do not want neutrality, localism, intimacy, because those things displace loyalty to the power formation, typically the state.