Tail of a tweetstorm by @SethAbramson about metamodernism, which I think is The Right Thing and important.
(Prompted by a @jordanbpeterson interview which I haven’t seen and don’t have an opinion about)
@MatthausAnsatzhttps://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/998016959202709504 …
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Postmodernism has “long outstayed its welcome” as
@SethAbramson put it. What comes next? Metamodernism should, in my opinion, incorporate the best of traditionalism, modernism, and postmodernism—with a meta-systematic perspective that goes beyond each:https://meaningness.com/fluidity-desiderata …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Did you notice how the whole "storm" was basically: I don't like Jordan, I'll frame him in negative words. Did it even use a single quote to show which position actually Jordan holds?
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There is a definite eternalist feel to JBP's myth making, but all is not quite as it seems. You could call it evolutionary eternalism, eg. archetypal symbols are resonant because of our deep history.
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The dragon is both a bird and a snake because that's what we most feared when we still lived in trees. This is what you might call a vision. It's not really testable, but I find it fascinating because it makes both mythic and scientific sense. It's a new myth.
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