Hoe_math is a good creator. I don't need to meet women being married for 14 years, but I've learned a lot from his videos.
The model for history that I have at the moment sees the enlightenment as the era where ideas were created, the French revolution was when those ideas manifested as an actual nation state which fundamentally changed how people related to those ideas, and more or less all of the ideas of modernism including rationality, logic, reason, and rejection of anything that's outside of a relatively simplified frame of reference, ended up turning the West into a military and scientific superpower. The problem is that modernism is not capable of sustaining a society and that's what philosophers such as Nietzsche warned about. Eventually the contradictions of the modernist era resulted in the world wars which led to the current postmodern era that we live in which under my model started almost immediately after the World wars ended.
The problem is that the postmodern era is a house of straw built on quicksand. The idea that you would make the rejection of objective truth your objective truth and the rejection of grand and narratives your grand narrative is self-evidently contradictory in a way that very quickly tears itself apart, and can't be reconciled without bringing in other frames of reference which the modernist abortion of postmodernism which characterizes the late postmodern period we live within explicitly rejects.
The ideal that I've developed and articulated a little bit in my last book was a superpositional view of the world where multiple ways of seeing things can exist at once and are weighted against one another without collapsing into synthesis, but unfortunately it's probably more likely that we end up collapsing into a new modernist regime or return in a lot of ways to the pre-modern regime.
One can hope, though, that perhaps we can find some people wise enough to lead us into a new era that can inherit traits of previous areas that were successful without trying to collapse it into a simplified caricature of itself.
The model for history that I have at the moment sees the enlightenment as the era where ideas were created, the French revolution was when those ideas manifested as an actual nation state which fundamentally changed how people related to those ideas, and more or less all of the ideas of modernism including rationality, logic, reason, and rejection of anything that's outside of a relatively simplified frame of reference, ended up turning the West into a military and scientific superpower. The problem is that modernism is not capable of sustaining a society and that's what philosophers such as Nietzsche warned about. Eventually the contradictions of the modernist era resulted in the world wars which led to the current postmodern era that we live in which under my model started almost immediately after the World wars ended.
The problem is that the postmodern era is a house of straw built on quicksand. The idea that you would make the rejection of objective truth your objective truth and the rejection of grand and narratives your grand narrative is self-evidently contradictory in a way that very quickly tears itself apart, and can't be reconciled without bringing in other frames of reference which the modernist abortion of postmodernism which characterizes the late postmodern period we live within explicitly rejects.
The ideal that I've developed and articulated a little bit in my last book was a superpositional view of the world where multiple ways of seeing things can exist at once and are weighted against one another without collapsing into synthesis, but unfortunately it's probably more likely that we end up collapsing into a new modernist regime or return in a lot of ways to the pre-modern regime.
One can hope, though, that perhaps we can find some people wise enough to lead us into a new era that can inherit traits of previous areas that were successful without trying to collapse it into a simplified caricature of itself.
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@sj_zero @sickburnbro The Enlightenment created very few ideas; Greeks and Romans postulated most of what they recontextualized and repopularized.
Wars are fought for power, wealth, and territory, not philosophical or societal pretenses. Royals were just replaced by clandestine bankers and other moneyed interests.
Wars are fought for power, wealth, and territory, not philosophical or societal pretenses. Royals were just replaced by clandestine bankers and other moneyed interests.