Here's the possibility we are looking at: the last four years have revealed the end state of Deconstructionism and Post-modernism. No one much likes what we've become. Lacking clarity on the next stage of cultural, social, and economic development, we have nowhere to go but back in time in search of truth. It's either that or forever suffer under the yoke of woke tyranny.
Over the decades in the second half of the 20th century, everything came to be reinvented. We took the accouterments out of architecture, the nutrition out of food, the harmony and melody out of music, the elegance out of fashion, the representation out of painting, the standards out of education, the craftsmanship out of furniture, the plots out of movies, and the inspiration and drama out of novels.
They even tried to invent religion without faith.
This was Modernism as it came to be in the second half of the 20th century. It's fun to tear up the pea patch. That's what they did with every hope that something more wonderful would emerge. But did it? The record of achievements of Post-modernism is spotty at best. The pea patch is a mess but where is the new food that was supposed to take its place?
The lockdowns of 2020 were conceived of as a test of the greatness and brilliance of bureaucratic, digital, and pharmaceutical titans. It was supposed to be the Great Reset, the apotheosis of Post-modernism. They would take over completely from the people, managing information, biology, public attention span, economic production, and politics, finally eliminating the last vestiges of popular government.
What have they created? Look around and you see vast destruction. We are left with nostalgia for what came before. More than that, we should be infused with a passion to rebuild what the Globalist intellectuals have destroyed.
Sure. It was charming in 1944 to watch Martha Graham reinvent classical ballet for modern times. But it's not so charming to see today's elites make such ghastly messes reinventing food, biology, energy, family, religion, education, social connection, gender, and constitutional government.
Where does all this end? With 3-D goggles strapped to our heads as tech titans ding our credit cards as we pay up to avoid real life?
In the big picture, Post-modern life has exposed Post-modernism itself as Millenarianism without an exit plan. We are left wondering—desperately trying to recall—what is orderly, fulfilling, beautiful, and true. We are awake now in ways we were not in the past. The only real port in this storm are the remnants of tradition and truth that we find only by looking hard and carefully curating our lives until this mess can be cleaned up.
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