This book presents solutions to problems that are total and based on thinking about how and why humans have organized themselves. It discusses how to avoid the now well-documented Holocene Extinction, propelled by climate change, wars, resource depletion, desertification, degrading knowledge quality, famine, and deterioration of societies overall. It explains why we cannot respond effectively with hedonistic, incompetent, corrupt, and anarchistic "liberal democracy" and why neither personality cult regimes can suffice. The book offers a model of an organic social structure embodying a collective consciousness of communitarianism and Platonic-style ethos. Putting an emphasis on the re-establishment of Classical Greek virtue, it offers solutions to resolve identity politics, alienation, and meritocracy. While doing so, the author opposes the "everyone is equal" ideology to govern the section of policymakers, instead circumscribing "rights" in terms of responsibilities, prioritizing education and training to carry forth the ethos of valuing truth above materialism, and developing Durkheim's social brain via a new discipline, "sociointelligence". The book goes on to explain how underpinning these elements is a comprehensive elucidation of often misunderstood words like "liberty", "freedom", "authoritarianism", and "democracy". All of these areas are arranged and combined in uniquely describing the organic society the author deems necessary to avoid human extinction. As a result, the book presents a "new organicity", where the emerging transhumanism seeks to transcend hydrocarbon-based life with humanly-constructed life. This book will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars of political science, philosophy, and the social sciences interested in a better understanding of complexity, democratic theory, Holocene Extinction, organic thinking, and meritocratic societies.

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Jeremy Horne received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Florida, USA, in 1988, concentrating on political philosophy, logic, the history of philosophy, and philosophy of education. He also holds a Master in Political Science from Southern Connecticut State University, USA, and a bachelor's from Johns Hopkins University, USA. Horne's current research interests include but are not limited to social and political philosophy, autonomous systems, states of life, and consciousness (natural and artificial), with an emphasis on dynamic validation. He is president emeritus of the Southwest Area Meeting (division) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His professional associations, past and present, include the Society for Consciousness Studies, the International Institute for Informatics and Systemics, the International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Bioelectromagnetics Society.