3.4 Modern/Postmodern
Last modified 04/23/2008
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Another way to sense the Great Divide is to note how it is reflected in a
spontaneous, and often wildly inaccurate, idea of the 'postmodern'. This
postmodernism accurately senses the reality of the modern transformation and
then reacts against it, an ironic outcome, yet one destined to be confounded by
the inherent of momentum of modernity which will move to reassert itself against
retrograde actions. In fact, there is hardly a problem here with postmodernism.
There is absolutely no reason why a critique of modernity should not be par for
the course, in the examination of the crystallizing notions of a 'secular ism'.
The rise of the modern is more than an 'ism', and the deconstruction of some
Enlightenment shibboleth is a dialectically inevitable process. But we should
note how closely the postmodern reaction echoes the Enlightenment itself,
witness the foundational issue in the Kantian critique of reason, one of the
great breakthroughs of the Enlightenment itself! Thus the postmodern, so
confusingly named, is really still another progeny of the very Enlightenment
that it proposes to challenge.
In general the postmodern reflects the fact, clearly shown in our eonic model, that the modern transition is a finite interval, and what happens after that may or may not accurately realize the true potential of the emerging Axial interval.
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