Fascism, imperialism, communism were results of modernist ideas: society has to be constructed, and making an omelet requires breaking eggs. Postmodernist societies don't construct, but mitigate and manage existing constructs. Instead of paradigmatic thought, they prefer methods.
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Arguably, it's much safer to live in a society that has its modernist phase well behind it. But in the pandemic response, we will also observe and compare the different ways in which modernist and postmodernist societies deal with existential threats.
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Is a postmodernist society able to lock down a city? Can it create hospitals in a few days? Can it quickly produce lots of ventilators, CT scanners, protective equipment? Can it train nurses? Can it lift regulations where they get in the way? Or is it just playing theatre?
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Aren't human rights a product of modernity? The "universality" of all humanity? Aren't post-modernists hard critics of "universality"?
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I think that human rights are a product of the enlightenment, as a synthesis of pax romana, Christian humanism, and anti-religious secularization. This modernity is not the same as modernism. Modernism understands the idea of human rights as a means, not as an end.
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Arguably, western post-modernism is a retreat from modernity, rather than an advance. Modernity (including what China is doing) has many unresolved problems, but a real post modernity will not be the irrationalist nonsense we have now.
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You are still being normative instead of descriptive here?
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What are some events or movements that mark the transition from modernist to postmodernist in western countries?
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I don't think that it was a deliberate retreat. Modernism fizzled out when the post war generation did no longer see the point, and found itself confronted with new incentives. It's similar to the transition from the first generation of Google managers to the current one.
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What are your thoughts on meta-modernism?
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What are yours?
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