https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread"> on recovering meaning in postmodernity, with implications for social structures and policy.

I think this is *the* most important question, period. Postmodernity is the biggest risk we face globally: https://twitter.com/palladiummag/status/1316151875402493952">https://twitter.com/palladium...

By comparison: We know how to solve climate change; we don& #39;t know how to solve postmodernity.

Postmodernity makes it likely we won& #39;t act to solve climate change, because it has destroyed the necessary institutional capacity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so-FcHTWEIY">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

This https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread"> summarizes long-form discussion on this web page. It suggests implications of the _Meaningness_ analytical framework for upcoming social change. (Disclaimer: not an area in which I have any particular expertise.) https://meaningness.com/fluidity-desiderata">https://meaningness.com/fluidity-...

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔨" title="Hammer" aria-label="Emoji: Hammer"> Three conceptual tools, which I apply to everything:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="1⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 1" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 1"> The pattern and nebulosity of meaningness are inseparable
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="2⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 2" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 2"> Particularly, all boundaries & distinctions are nebulous but patterned
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="3⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 3" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 3"> So system function is inseparable from context and purpose https://meaningness.com/big-three-stance-combinations">https://meaningness.com/big-three...

Palladium asks key questions. As stated, I have to answer “yes” and “no” respectively—not what they want to believe. But I can affirm what I imagine is the question behind the questions, with answers that may align with their vision. https://twitter.com/palladiummag/status/1316148814198185984?s=20">https://twitter.com/palladium...

Modernity is an “eternalism”: an attempt to fix meanings on solid foundations. Meanings are nebulous, so they can’t be fixed. Eternalism is mistaken and harmful. https://meaningness.com/eternalism ">https://meaningness.com/eternalis...

“Postmodernity” just means that, by now, pretty much everyone realizes—implicitly or explicitly—eternalism is wrong, and meanings can’t be nailed down.

Monotheism is also an eternalism. God is indeed dead. I don’t believe He can be shocked back to life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPmVhyHBRAM&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch... https://www.youtube.com/watch...

America’s loss of Christianity has been somewhat disastrous, just as its loss of modernity has been. The replacements we’ve created so far have been, on balance, worse. https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1298684845199986689?s=20">https://twitter.com/Meaningne...

Having collectively believed that meanings were guaranteed by God and/or Newton, then realized they aren’t, the natural alternative is nihilism, the denial of meaningfulness. Postmodernity strongly tends toward nihilism… https://meaningness.com/nihilism ">https://meaningness.com/nihilism&...

Fortunately, meaningfulness is obvious everywhere, so you can’t actually be a nihilist. Instead, we tend to flip back & forth between nihilism & eternalism. This is characteristic of postmodernity.

Its simplistic ideologies combine certainty & incoherence https://meaningness.com/preview-eternalism-and-nihilism">https://meaningness.com/preview-e...

Can we recover notions of higher purpose, teleology, and even theology in a postmodern world?

No, if “postmodern” means “rejecting rationality, universality, and coherence.”

Yes, if it includes all possibilities for a future after modernist eternalism… https://meaningness.com/fluidity-desiderata">https://meaningness.com/fluidity-...

“Metamodernity” is sometimes used to refer to a hypothetical social and cultural mode which recognizes that meaning is real and displays relatively reliable patterns, but also that it is nebulous, variable, interactional, contextual, purpose-dependent. https://meaningness.com/preview-eternalism-and-nihilism">https://meaningness.com/preview-e...