Modern civilisation possesses enormous technological power, but very little coherent long-term orientation. Humanity has learned how to split the atom, build global communication networks and develop artificial intelligence, yet many of the most fundamental questions of civilisation remain unresolved. Questions concerning ethics, education, governance, mental wellbeing, economics, environmental balance and the long-term future of humanity are still addressed in fragmented, reactive and often contradictory ways. In many areas, humanity improvises its own future. Individuals are born into highly complex societies without receiving any coherent universal orientation for life itself. Every generation must rediscover fundamental questions almost from the beginning. Humanity repeatedly…




