Political philosopher, historian and sociologist, Hanzi Freinacht, author of ‘The Listening Society’, offers an anatomy of equality and its evolution. “Recognition cannot be forced to be given, nor can it be redistributed like material wealth, nor can it be force-fed to the starving. But, again, the fact that equality is paradoxical, and perhaps cannot be “achieved” in any absol­ute sense, doesn’t mean it cannot develop and grow. Equality can be deve­loped; it can evolve.”

I think Hanzi Freinacht (actually the playful nom de plume of two thinkers ) is one of the most important writers alive today. The Listening Society and Nordic Ideology both offer the structural bones of what a Metamodern society can be. They offer a sort of Montesquieu 2.0 for going beyond the Modern and even Postmodern structures of power and society. While this particular piece on equality is from a few months back, it is part of a wider exploration of the myriad ways in which inequality shows up in the modern/postmodern/late-modern world. I enthusiastically recommend their writings.