Why we need Logos Circles: The context
We are living through overlapping crises: not just political or economic—but a crisis of trust, a crisis of meaning, and a crisis of belonging. Logos Circles directly address these by creating values-driven groups designed to tackle these problems by building effective institutional alternatives, finding meaning through helping others and taking back agency to improve community life.
1. Institutional Collapse & the Trust Crisis
Only 4 in 10 people globally trust their national government (OECD 2024).
In advanced democracies, 64% of citizens are dissatisfied with how democracy is working (Pew Research 2025).
Traditional political institutions feel unresponsive, corrupt, or broken—especially among the young, marginalised, and digitally fluent.
→ Circles respond by giving people a tangible alternative: a space to organise, meet like-minded people, solve real problems, and take back agency.
2. Authoritarianism & Networked Suppression
Over 70% of the global population now lives under authoritarian or eroding democratic regimes (Democracy Index 2024).
Free expression is increasingly criminalised. Centralised digital platforms are weaponised by governments and corporations alike.
→ Circles uses Logos’ cutting edge technology stack to create resistant civic space designed to protect basic civil liberties from oppression and corruption.
3. The Meaning Crisis & Collapse of Community
Philosopher John Vervaeke describes a global meaning crisis, where individuals are cut off from coherent sources of purpose, identity, and collective belonging.
Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone famously documented the decline of social capital in the US—fewer clubs, churches, unions, neighbours, and civic spaces.
Today, loneliness and disconnection have reached epidemic levels. In the UK and Japan, governments have even appointed Ministers for Loneliness.
→ Circles revive the social fabric by creating new communities based on shared values, rituals, mutual aid, and purpose-driven collective action.
They are spaces for:
Building relationships rooted in values.
Creating rituals of mutual connection.
Acting together to help each other as a purpose.
Rebuilding civic life from the ground up.
4. Why the Logos Stack Makes This Possible
Nomos: a decentralised consensus layer enabling local governance and rulesets.
Codex: private storage for documents, identity, and shared knowledge.
Waku: censorship-resistant messaging for secure communication.
→ Circles use these tools to prototype real-world, resilient institutions: mutual aid systems, peer-to-peer marketplaces, community-owned infrastructure, and more.
Core Drivers Summarised
Problem
Why It Matters
How Circles Respond
Institutional distrust
Politics becomes disconnected from civil life
Offer permissionless alternatives that works
Authoritarian pressure
Civil liberties being eroded
Use technology to safeguard basic freedoms
Meaning crisis & collapse of belonging
Increase in depression, loneliness and suicide
Build real relationships & shared purpose
Surveillance capitalism & extractive platforms
Centralised systems erode democracies and support the authoritarian drift
Circles run on privacy-first tools built and owned by the movement
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