Very interesting piece. However, I do not say that we need to go backwards and in fact, addressed that accusation in the piece cited when I argue that the modern project & liberalism is inherently progressive. https://areomagazine.com/2017/12/08/the-problem-with-truth-and-reason-in-a-post-truth-society/ …https://twitter.com/QuilletteM/status/951445892480909315 …
That's right, yes. We spent quite a lot of words explaining why. Have you seen James Taylor, the theologian who says postmodernism can take Christianity back to a pro-government state?
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I don't know why it changed pre-modern to pro-government!
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Argh. And it's James K A Taylor. New phone.
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I haven't, but I've heard similar ideas, and I know plenty of theologians (left and right) who are thrilled at the prospect (I'm not)...
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Good. You won't be a pre-modern then. You don't want to get rid of science, liberal democracy etc
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Well, my view is that nothing's gonna undo science other than science itself (so no, and I don't believe theologians who say otherwise). On liberal democracy I'm more, um, explorative
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Science as knowledge will survive. Science as an institution is threatened in different ways by the far-right and far-left.
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But Newtonian physics hasn't survived. Science undid it.
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Yes, science is self-correcting. It holds that knowledge is always provisional and tries to falsify findings to weed out error.
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Science survives. The knowledge it produces is provisional, constantly corrected & updated.
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But content changes method, they develop together
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...it might be done - but combined with media vitriol against 'the masses' it worries me, though I might not hold the opinions in question
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*The masses* value science, reason, human rights, secular liberal democracy but despite this majority, people are polarising left or right in response to the loons on the other side & minimising those on their own. That was our thesis.
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..ideologies premodern without implying some sort of elitism around maturity? In your writing...
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No. Not at all. Pre-moderns are a lunatic fringe. Our argument was that the majority of rightists value modernity.
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Oh HIM. Yes. I don't think it's possible personally. So do you think it's possible to call a relatively wide range of...
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