Wikid World

Reimagining Western Civilization

As I walk through this wicked world
Searching for light in the darkness of insanity
I ask myself, is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred and misery?
-Elvis Costello

The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.
- E. O. Wilson

A primitive species with a small brain can only wreak so much havoc. A primitive species with a large brain? Well, that's another story. Welcome to Wikid World, a philosophical and historical reimagination of Western Civilization.

Leveraging unique tools and insights, Wikid World delivers an urgent account of the intricate and conflicted relationship between the two master narratives of the last millennium: moral agency and systems complexity. What’s at stake? Let’s call it the end of morality. Let's call it after virtue. Let's call it everything.