Ethics is now overburdened partly because nihilistic relativism erodes all other non-pragmatic forms of value: e.g. religious and aesthetic.
@Meaningness ...in place of the cultural machinery of sophisticated universalism, pop aesthetics has empirical orientation 'I like this'.
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@St_Rev I think this is a good point, but also that it is more complicated than that in both cases. -
@Meaningness "It" is always more complicated than "that", right? Need a way to express that short enough to append to all utterances. -
@St_Rev Yeah… should be taken for granted in any serious discussion, I guess!
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@St_Rev Pop aesthetics are very heavily intertwined with the economics and prejudices of the music industry, which do tend toward nihilism…Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@St_Rev …and while “high art” is often bullshit, at best it can disclose subtle & important values that don’t surface otherwise.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.