O.G. Rose - Belonging in an Age of Hyper-Fragmentation

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 as well as the Uno Press lab prize and has been featured in literary publications such as The Iowa Review, The William and Mary Review, and Broken Pencil. 

Daniel has been involved in the writing of 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.

The following 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 highlight the importance of lack and negativity, forces so often overlooked in spiritual spaces; examine weak versus costly perennialism and the limits of any single system, model, or medium; and sit with the difference between talking about belonging and living it.

🔗[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 by O.G. Rose
• Belonging Again: An Address by O.G. Rose
• Triumph of the Therapeutic by Phillip Rieff

🕰️[Time Stamps]🕰️
0:00 - Intro
2:45 - The central problem of belonging 
12:27 - Regressive forms of Belonging 
16:37 - How belonging differs on a local, national, and global level
21:15 - Cheap Vs Costly Perennialism and evolving structures 
30:18 - Negativity, lack, and radical difference
37:29 - The limits of any one system, model, or medium
41:51 - Hegel's absolute knower, the Deleuzian individual, the Nietzschean child, and the debate between Freud and Jung 
46:10 - The irony of not belonging in a conversation about belonging and the importance of intelligibility 
57:24 - The social coordination mechanism 
1:03:01 - Somewheres and anywheres
1:06:41 - Democratizing media 
 1:11:41 - Racism as the problem of givens and releases 
1:20:06 - Nature as a pathway to diversity and belonging 
1:25:18 - The pros and cons of digital history 
1:30:11 - The difference between talking about belonging and living it 
1:35:37 - Finding belonging in different mediums and structures 
1:41:45 - Daniel’s insights from running Eunoia, an in-person gathering space
1:49:03 - We are all doomed without adequate social coordination 

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