Which will be useful because you can tell me what needs explaining more and better.
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I don't think what we need is 'a plurality of disparate and elusive horizons' so much as a plurality of disparate & well-evidenced arguments from which we can get the best & most supported ideas and advance our species.
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YMMV; the manifesto darts from one contradiction to another—that's its form—from art to the absolute to science to poeticism, to strive for something beyond. And most of all, to strive for movement beyond postmodernism's inertia. As an artist, this is why I found it useful to pen
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Right. I'm not sure this is meaningful in the way we need it to be if we want to preserve a liberal, secular democracy and the concept of objective truth in a society comprised of many groups with different narratives.
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But living in a time where once again the idea of creating something meaningful, of attempting some kind of beauty or truth, I find to be incredibly useful – despite the inherent dangers of romanticism
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It depends how you do this. The groups doing this most successfully at the moment range from Islamists to the Tea Party to the Corbynite left to the Jordan Peterson cult. I don't find any of them useful.
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But I'm clearly none of those. I'm an artist by profession. That's how I choose to engage, and hope that I am helping change the world to something better in some small way through my actions.
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As do I. It seems our ways are antithetical.
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How so, though? I truly believe that everyone is an artist (though not by profession, of course). Everyone is driven by some kind desire for movement, surely? And things that facilitate this are generally positive.
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thanks, will give a read. As I say, we absolutely already do this—that is precisely the point of metamodernism attempting to articulate where we're at, and how we've moved beyond a dead end of postmodern relativism
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But it doesn't. It remains profoundly relative. It is entirely in our nature to mix objective reality up with emotionally resonant tribal narratives. Modernity is when we began taking steps to overcome this and it worked astoundingly well. It overshot in undervaluing psychology.
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We are now threatened with a return to pre-modernity because of a plurality, not of perspectives which is valuable, but of epistemologies which we are losing the ability to evaluate for worth due to postmodernism & resulting religious & ideological mythological pushback.
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Movement isn't always forward, of course (alas). I don't think we'll devolve into a pre-modern society though, barring some kind of nuclear apocalypse (which, granted, is looking scarily more likely now). Religion also doesn't seem to be going away, which makes me sad, so…
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