This is exactly the discussion I think society has to be having even if it isn't...though it is nice that we're putting it out there in the blogosphere.
Believing in democratic egalitarianism is fine, I suppose. That's a "higher power" sort of. Although I think it would still be dodging the bullet, a bit, about having a discussion of what all that democratic egalitarianism "means." Why? Why does one have a values-rich system? There's the rub. Existentially/philosophically. In that, I think all roads return to either "God" or atheism. It's more complicated than that, but your second issue is in there too....
I'm not sure all post-modernism is nihilism. Deconstruction is one thing. But doing it for its own sake or for greater good...and what is that good?...is where things get interesting. Is post-modernism valueless?
The devil, so to speak, is in the details. To me, postmodernism is about living in a full world not bounded by old standards and brave enough to boldly move progressively into the future. I suppose it means different things to different people though.
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Believing in democratic egalitarianism is fine, I suppose. That's a "higher power" sort of. Although I think it would still be dodging the bullet, a bit, about having a discussion of what all that democratic egalitarianism "means." Why? Why does one have a values-rich system? There's the rub. Existentially/philosophically. In that, I think all roads return to either "God" or atheism. It's more complicated than that, but your second issue is in there too....
I'm not sure all post-modernism is nihilism. Deconstruction is one thing. But doing it for its own sake or for greater good...and what is that good?...is where things get interesting. Is post-modernism valueless?
The devil, so to speak, is in the details. To me, postmodernism is about living in a full world not bounded by old standards and brave enough to boldly move progressively into the future. I suppose it means different things to different people though.