Monday, March 15, 2004
WHICH WORLD?
I've been ruminating on the Spanish bombings and their impact on the elections there ... lots of dark thoughts. This one percolated up from the gloom:
While the leftist intellectuals who captured our high culture spent the last twenty years pondering the question of how the post-modern world would develop, the pre-modern world was reasserting itself in places where those intellectuals had no impact at all. Of course, the fantasies of post-modernism are in fact just that, but they have a deadly dangerous impact. The real life-or-death struggle is between the pre-modern and the modern. The only impact that the so-called post-modern has is as a fifth column within the modern. How is this? The quintessential element of the post-modern mentality is the belief that judgment is wrong and that there is no truth, that all things are relative and that no matter of culture can be judged superior to another. Europe is deeply infected with this malaise. America's secular cultural leadership is also a vector for it, sad to say. (Where, oh where are the secular modernists?) Can we fight off the infection of post-modernism, while at the same time battling the terrorist killers of the pre-modern? Today, I have only hope -- a slender thread to hang by.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 9:46 AM
