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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
By comparison: We know how to solve climate change; we don't know how to solve postmodernity.
Postmodernity makes it likely we won't act to solve climate change, because it has destroyed the necessary institutional capacity.
Postmodernity makes it likely we won't act to solve climate change, because it has destroyed the necessary institutional capacity.
This 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
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
Three conceptual tools, which I apply to everything:
The pattern and nebulosity of meaningness are inseparable
Particularly, all boundaries & distinctions are nebulous but patterned
So system function is inseparable from context and purpose https://meaningness.com/big-three-stance-combinations
Palladium asks key questions. As stated, I have to answer âyesâ and ânoâ respectivelyânot 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
Modernity is an âeternalismâ: an attempt to fix meanings on solid foundations. Meanings are nebulous, so they canât be fixed. Eternalism is mistaken and harmful. https://meaningness.com/eternalism
âPostmodernityâ just means that, by now, pretty much everyone realizesâimplicitly or explicitlyâeternalism is wrong, and meanings canât be nailed down.
Monotheism is also an eternalism. God is indeed dead. I donât believe He can be shocked back to life
Monotheism is also an eternalism. God is indeed dead. I donât believe He can be shocked back to life
Americaâs loss of Christianity has been somewhat disastrous, just as its loss of modernity has been. The replacements weâve created so far have been, on balance, worse. https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1298684845199986689?s=20
Having collectively believed that meanings were guaranteed by God and/or Newton, then realized they arenât, the natural alternative is nihilism, the denial of meaningfulness. Postmodernity strongly tends toward nihilism⊠https://meaningness.com/nihilism
Fortunately, meaningfulness is obvious everywhere, so you canât 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
Its simplistic ideologies combine certainty & incoherence https://meaningness.com/preview-eternalism-and-nihilism
Can we recover notions of higher purpose, teleology, and even theology in a postmodern world?
No, if âpostmodernâ means ârejecting rationality, universality, and coherence.â
Yes, if it includes all possibilities for a future after modernist eternalism⊠https://meaningness.com/fluidity-desiderata
No, if âpostmodernâ means ârejecting rationality, universality, and coherence.â
Yes, if it includes all possibilities for a future after modernist eternalism⊠https://meaningness.com/fluidity-desiderata
âMetamodernityâ 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
