You know you're a modernist when you prefer a mediocre but up-to-date contemporary take on a classical idea to reading "originals." I'm one.
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You call yourself a modernist? (that's not meant to sound sarcastic)
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not art history sense of early 1900s. Just "today's ideas probably better than yesterday's, tomorrow's better than today's"
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But modernism in the sense that we should be trying to improve and have a realist philosophy?
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I'd question the meaning of "improve" there, but if you allow all to define "improve" their own way, w/o coercing others, yes.
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I'd argue "improvement" is making a society that "allows everyone to define their own way, w/o coercing others"
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agreed. And I think that's happening. Except it makes a lot of people miserable because they don't define improvement that way
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I'd say less than 10% define improvement that way, so at any given time, improvement in this sense seems like decline to 90%
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What you need to satisfy all: humanoid robots that pass strong Turing test, that you can buy by busload and boss around
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Only 10% because society doesn't value it yet - YET! I think people will become more and more like this over time.
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or today's 10%ers become tomorrow's 90%ers, like the hippies.
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