No, my insistence comes from being obviously correct. You are just giving me Post-Modernist bullshit. They reduce everything to "myths," "narratives," and "stories." That is a central intellectual foundation of Post-Modernism. This is particularly odd from coming someone who apparently wants to defend the West. The dramatic increase in material standard of living for the masses is one of the finest achievements of Western Civilization. But for some reason, you want to hand-wave it away by cal...| Aporia
Arctotherium is a frequently brilliant writer, but this article exposes a blind spot in his approach. The idea of progress is a late-stage rationalist artifact of the Faustian West, and the form that generated it is approaching exhaustion. To speak of restarting progress is like asking a tree in winter to reason itself back into bloom. The paradigm this essay adopts has already expired. And when the myth of progress no longer commands belief, survival demands a different myth.| Aporia
Without boundaries, distinctions and aversions, concepts such as loyalty and love become incoherent.| www.aporiamagazine.com
