Illusions In The Late Modern Era
On Nov 11, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Steve Lavendusky wrote:
Matt,
One set of illusions has been exchanged for another set of illusions, one mirage for another mirage. That’s all. Both will come to Nothing. Both Clinton and Trump, amongst others, have proved only that the Late Modern Era has grown bereft of its originating fount of spirit and is now barren of any and all fecund and generative ideas.
In some sense it can be said that “Post-Truth Society”, as it is presently called, is also an attempt to save the illusions despite the fact that something inside us already knows they are a mirage and illusion. The illusions are becoming unsustainable and transparent in a most terrible way.
“Winter is coming!”, as they say in The Game of Thrones
Matt,
One set of illusions has been exchanged for another set of illusions, one mirage for another mirage. That’s all. Both will come to Nothing. Both Clinton and Trump, amongst others, have proved only that the Late Modern Era has grown bereft of its originating fount of spirit and is now barren of any and all fecund and generative ideas.
In some sense it can be said that “Post-Truth Society”, as it is presently called, is also an attempt to save the illusions despite the fact that something inside us already knows they are a mirage and illusion. The illusions are becoming unsustainable and transparent in a most terrible way.
“Winter is coming!”, as they say in The Game of Thrones