3.2 Modern/Postmodern
Last modified 05/21/2008
| In passing let us clarity the confusion over postmodernism that tends to haunt current efforts to defend modernity. The postmodern phase of modern thought is a confusing one, but it does accurately reflect the sudden sense of many that there is a change in the character of modernity. Actually, there is no such change in the basic elements, but as we have seen there is a difference between the elements generating modernity in the eonic sequence, and modern transition, and the nature of the realization that occurs in its wake. The students of postmodernism are perhaps detecting merely that the modern transition has long since been over, and that the realization of its potential may be open so some criticism. No problem with that, but our point is merely that there is no 'postmodern' period, as such, only a possible change of qualitative realization. Our model brings home the fact that our evolutionary process doesn't control its short term future, and lapses into inaction beyond the series of transitions it generates. | ||
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