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Fran Hersh's new book
A blueprint to save our democracy
and future.
Fran Hersh
Journeys of Heart, Rum Stories, and New Democracy
"True success lies in finding the resonance with our deepest purpose."
The world has lost its soul, its spirit — and its freedom.
Or maybe it never had them.
In recent decades, philosophy, literature, culture, and academia have been worn away from their essence simply to be, and nudged to serve—politically, socially, morally. Whether of the left or the right, constructivist postmodernism has reduced them to narrative propaganda, cloaked in aesthetics and scientism. Any ideal of l’art pour l’art, science pour la science, or vérité pour la vérité—if it ever truly existed—has died with it.
As a negation of this totalitarian impulse, noetic philosophy and noetic fiction emerge as a refusal—not to instruct, mobilize, or correct, but simply to exist again—slowly, imperfectly, honestly—as life itself.
And as a revival. Not of a lost past, but of something that was always present—waiting.
The first example of this dreamed genre—in the sense of the Aboriginal Dreaming—is Tropics of Heart, a novel in which truth is not argued or explained, but allowed to appear through lived experience, memory, desire, love, contradiction, and inner recognition.
This longing does not end in literature and philosophy. It heals also hearts and minds, politics and institutions.
The illness began after the Second World War.
With the rise of television, mass media, corporate consolidation, and lobbying power, narrative management once again usurped judgment, and with it, personal and political freedom. It replaced truth with alignment, keeping us trained and conditioned. It emptied the words liberal and democracy of their meaning and repurposed them to conceal oligarchy disguised as a republic, presenting consumerism as choice, and ideology as truth.
People lost their voices—publicly, politically, institutionally.
New Democracy is a political system and vision of society grounded not in ideology, parties, or power structures, but in human conscience. Based on noetic philosophy, it begins from a simple premise: that every person carries an innate faculty of insight—nous—by which one can discern what is right, make the right choice, and vote accordingly.
Designed for direct citizen participation through digital means, it holds that when political decisions arise from inner truth rather than fear, identity, or ideology, society aligns naturally toward justice, balance, and freedom. A structured system with clearly defined checks and balances, it is conceived to prevent technocratic control, populist manipulation, and the concentration of power. Neither left nor right, neither collectivist nor individualist, it restores accountability from the bottom up, gives sovereignty and truth back to the people, and reestablishes the relationship between people and politics—and with it, between soul and society.
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