{"id":1409,"date":"2016-05-01T23:44:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T23:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2016-05-02T09:16:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T09:16:32","slug":"friends-of-the-mont-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/2016\/05\/friends-of-the-mont-order.html","title":{"rendered":"Friends of the Mont Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1410\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/375\/2016\/05\/Network-1024x610.jpg\" alt=\"Friends of the Mont Order\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The small society\u00a0of techno-politics dissidents and internet users called the Mont Order has a surprise for its members&#8230; and for just about anyone else who has heard of the Order.<\/h2>\n<p>The surprise can be found at Facebook, where the Mont Order had\u00a0done almost nothing up until now.<\/p>\n<p>For everyone who has been searching for the opportunity, you can now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/MontOrderFriends\/\">&#8220;join&#8221; the Mont Order community instantly using the social network Facebook<\/a>.\u00a0You can be added to a public group comprised of technology and politics enthusiasts, who featured at an earlier Facebook group. Quickly get involved in fascinating discussions and content shares over there right now,\u00a0by joining the Order&#8217;s many friends.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the group featured on Facebook isn&#8217;t really the Mont Order, which is a small modest society of globally-scattered dissidents and writers. Instead, the Facebook group is the <em>Friends of the Mont Order<\/em>. It joins as\u00a0part of a broader tapestry of groups, movements and contact circles who know of the Mont Order and are sharing its messages of global enlightenment and progress every day.<\/p>\n<p>As the group description reads, &#8220;This group is for anyone interested in the intersection of technology and politics. The Mont Order welcomes participation from group members and the public. Keep it lively, keep it interesting, keep it challenging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An &#8220;information society&#8221;, the Mont Order has been holding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/Documents\/in\/Mont_Order\">online\u00a0discussions and formulating its code\u00a0with varying levels of participation since 2015<\/a>. Although the group is not politically aligned, it sides with the free flow of information, goods and people around the world and regards technology as the key force behind\u00a0that type of friendly\u00a0globalization. The Mont Order considers its current society to be reliant upon the internet, and recognizes this in the way it views new technological evolution and changes in communication media\u00a0as\u00a0essential parts of political modernity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-919\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/375\/2015\/09\/hjb-signature-new-transparent-300x86.png\" alt=\"hjb signature new transparent\" width=\"300\" height=\"86\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small society\u00a0of techno-politics dissidents and internet users called the Mont Order has a surprise for its members&#8230; and for just about anyone else who has heard of the Order. The surprise can be found at Facebook, where the Mont Order had\u00a0done almost nothing up until now. For everyone who has been searching for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,63,66,45],"tags":[484,5,13,38,378,26,1434],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alter-globalization","category-futurism-2","category-politics-2","category-techno-progressivism","tag-facebook","tag-futurism","tag-globalization","tag-mont-order","tag-mont-order-club","tag-social-change","tag-technoprogressivism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Friends of the Mont Order - L&#039;Ordre<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Friends of the Mont Order has joined the tapestry of groups, movements and contact circles associated with the Mont Order society.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/2016\/05\/friends-of-the-mont-order.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Friends of the Mont Order - L&#039;Ordre\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Friends of the Mont Order has joined the tapestry of groups, movements and contact circles associated with the Mont Order society.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/2016\/05\/friends-of-the-mont-order.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"L&#039;Ordre\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-05-01T23:44:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-05-02T09:16:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/files\/2016\/05\/Network-1024x610.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Harry J. 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