If belief is manifest in action, then perhaps so is explanation. The 'explained' is what we know how to deal with, as long as the world doesn't change...
As a novelty-as-progress addict, I'd tell the forgotten-wisdom crowd that they can't get the moment back, that the image of that wisdom is different t...
For me Gray is just an example. Will tech give us utopia? Will we all wake up and be cool one day? How does antinatalism connect to the apocalypse des...
Speaking as an atheist, I find this nothing more a bit too strong. Consider the gap between the believer in some creed and the more cautious person wh...
I agree with you about the presumption involved in how 'darkness' is understood. What do darkness-managing stories have in common? Well, the managing ...
Adding to this, 'anything is explainable' might scratch the same old itch that theology scratches. We are afraid of the dark, and stories are perhaps ...
I don't know if you'll count this, but some people think in terms of forgotten wisdom. They want to return to the good old days. Backwards is forwards...
Does it have everywhere to go except nowhere? Is it bound to this project of not being bounded? Novelty as progress? Is 'pomo' another name for an old...
We seem to see the situation in basically the same way. How do some of John Gray's darker passages fit in here? He attacks the religion of progress. I...
It seems they are 'fictions' because they are more like stories than stones. Complex numbers were controversial once. Now they are intuitively obvious...
I like Lyotard's book, but the position sketched above has been with us much longer than the term 'postmodern,' no? What about an atheist who doesn't ...
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