On the death of idealism
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 3:53 pm
On another thread:
Increasingly, I've come to fear that we live in a post-idealistic world. I see the 6th of January as a signpost on this road. What happens to us when everything, every concept, every ideal, every fact, is up for grabs and subject to redefinition and subsumed by relentless, spur-of-the-moment reframing? (I'm thinking, for example, of a fellow poster's insistence that 'nuance' will excuse anything.)
Heh. Maybe I'm just profoundly depressed by the anniversary of the capital insurrection. I dunno.
What are your thoughts?
I've lived my life based on certain Idealistic premises. I joined the service, got married, got divorced, participated in religion, left religion, chose my profession, attended university, and chose another profession, all based on what I thought was a set of "what is the right thing to do" principles. Though not all of these panned out, I still maintain a sort of idealist framework that I work from.honorentheos wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 10:17 pmSorry, I skipped over some of my thinking in making that comment. In the course of the discussion it appears to me that critical theory is essentially post-modern critiques of legal and social structures. Given idealism is anathema to post-modernism, well.
Increasingly, I've come to fear that we live in a post-idealistic world. I see the 6th of January as a signpost on this road. What happens to us when everything, every concept, every ideal, every fact, is up for grabs and subject to redefinition and subsumed by relentless, spur-of-the-moment reframing? (I'm thinking, for example, of a fellow poster's insistence that 'nuance' will excuse anything.)
Heh. Maybe I'm just profoundly depressed by the anniversary of the capital insurrection. I dunno.
What are your thoughts?