Earthshine --> movedJul 11, 2023
This one cuts deep:
The modern condition is mostly trying to do things on your own that people have historically achieved with a large support network and wondering why you're tired all the time.
Show threadlain, author of the quixoteJul 11, 2023
@earthshine the modern condition aka the condition of coastal big city Americans
Show threadUrsidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs
@lain @earthshine no, this is everywhere
Jul 12, 2023 at 9:05amWeb
Show threadJonathan Hartley's old accountAug 7, 2023
@ellenor2000 @lain @earthshine Right. The USA is only one example of this, which is caused not by local values, but by modernism displacing the relevance of deep-seated ancient institutions (such as religion), while promoting egoic personal responsibility, then being undermined in turn by postmodernism pointing out the catastrophic failures of modernity (such as corruption within ostensibly rational institutions such as implementations of democracy). Individuals have nothing left to rely on.
Show threadUrsidinoj/The BjornsdottirsAug 7, 2023
@tartley @lain @earthshine Where do you get your water?
Show threadJonathan Hartley's old accountAug 7, 2023
@ellenor2000 @lain @earthshine
Show threadJonathan Hartley's old accountAug 7, 2023
@ellenor2000 @lain @earthshine (the surreal, anti-authoritarian, fourth wall breaking comedy of Monty Python being itself an absolutely prime example of the transition from a rational, hierarchical modernity, to a cynical, rebellious postmodernism.)
Show threadJonathan Hartley's old accountAug 7, 2023
@ellenor2000 @lain @earthshine Hence the rise in facism, which seeks to redress modernity's failings by regressing to the "proven" social structures of earlier times. These may be hideously unjust on several axes, but many people on middling rungs or higher derived great meaning from being embedded in a dense social fabric & knowing thier place in the world. Meaning that modernity does not provide.
Show threadJonathan Hartley's old accountAug 7, 2023
@ellenor2000 @lain @earthshine and the buzz in progressive circles about the alternative approach of "metamodernism", which attempts to blend the strengths of the ancient, the modern & the postmodern, to produce an outlook on life around which we could perhaps structure societies that can provide for both our material and emotional wants.