How to Find Real Belonging in an Age of Hyper-Fragmentation - O.G. Rose

Daniel Garner is a writer, philosopher, and one-half of O.G. Rose — the philosophical and literary voice he shares with his wife, Michelle Garner. Their work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Uno Press Lab Prize, and has been featured in literary publications including The Iowa Review, The William and Mary Review, and Broken Pencil. Daniel has been involved in writing over a dozen books including "The Conflict of Mind," "The Map Is Indestructible," the "Belonging Again" series, and a creative fiction work, "Under the Wing." When not writing or thinking on the deepest questions of our times, he manages the Mead Lake Lodge wedding venue, teaches piano using visuals from the DLG Pattern Method, and raises four children.This conversation was recorded live during Limicon, a digital conference for people in the liminal, Game B, and metamodern adjacent spaces.In it, we explore how belonging can be created beyond conformity or isolationism in a pluralistic and hyper-fragmented world, and what it asks of us across different scales, from the local to the national to the global.We get into regressive forms of belonging, how belonging differs on a local, national, and global level, and cheap vs costly perennialism and evolving structures. We highlight the importance of negativity, lack, and radical difference — forces so often overlooked in spiritual spaces — and examine the limits of any single system, model, or medium.We explore Hegel's absolute knower, the Deleuzian individual, the Nietzschean child, and the debate between Freud and Jung, the irony of not belonging in a conversation about belonging, and the social coordination mechanism.We also get into somewheres and anywheres, democratizing media, racism as the problem of givens and releases, and nature as a pathway to diversity and belonging.We close by sitting with the difference between talking about belonging and living it, finding belonging in different mediums and structures, Daniel's insights from running Eunoia, an in-person gathering space, and why we are all doomed without adequate social coordination.🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES 🔗O.G. Rose's personal site Subscribe to O.G. Rose's Substack Watch O.G. Rose's YouTube channel Belonging Again: An Explanation — O.G. Rose Belonging Again: An Address — O.G. Rose Triumph of the Therapeutic — Philip Rieff Inside the Manosphere — documentary Charles W. Mills Science and Sanity — Alfred Korzybski Friedrich Hayek The Road to Somewhere — David Goodhart Christopher Alexander🕰️ TIMESTAMPS 🕰️0:00 - Intro2:45 - The central problem of belonging12:27 - Regressive forms of belonging16:37 - How belonging differs on a local, national, and global level21:15 - Cheap vs costly perennialism and evolving structures30:18 - Negativity, lack, and radical difference37:29 - The limits of any one system, model, or medium41:51 - Hegel's absolute knower, the Deleuzian individual, the Nietzschean child, and the debate between Freud and Jung46:10 - The irony of not belonging in a conversation about belonging and the importance of intelligibility57:24 - The social coordination mechanism1:03:01 - Somewheres and anywheres1:06:41 - Democratizing media1:11:41 - Racism as the problem of givens and releases1:20:06 - Nature as a pathway to diversity and belonging1:25:18 - The pros and cons of digital history1:30:11 - The difference between talking about belonging and living it1:35:37 - Finding belonging in different mediums and structures1:41:45 - Daniel's insights from running Eunoia, an in-person gathering space1:49:03 - We are all doomed without adequate social coordination*Subscribe to my YouTube channel to watch the video versions of the Elevating Consciousness Podcast *Subscribe to the Insighter Substack to get the latest podcast episodes, in-depth articles, and community practice sessions delivered straight to your inbox