Hmm, well, that's not what my mom goes for, so... yeah, I don't know. Are you a utilitarian art kind of person?
No, the crisis of modernity isn't an explanation, but it is certainly a label to a phenomenon. I don't know who coined it, but it was probably someone who felt betrayed by what they thought was modernity. But people who buy into the idea that there is a crisis specific to their time do certainly feel a sense of having lost some infinite thing. That thing is exactly what makes them feel connected and whole - sometimes they label it morality and sometimes they label it ancestor worship and sometimes they label it national pride, and they try to re-discover this infinite thing through religion, war, bombs, etc. What makes the crisis modern is the very idea of loss, the feeling that there is something missing that used to be there, something that the passage of time has taken away. Of course, that's a very loose definition of modern that I'm using.
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Date: 2009-01-11 06:49 am (UTC)No, the crisis of modernity isn't an explanation, but it is certainly a label to a phenomenon. I don't know who coined it, but it was probably someone who felt betrayed by what they thought was modernity. But people who buy into the idea that there is a crisis specific to their time do certainly feel a sense of having lost some infinite thing. That thing is exactly what makes them feel connected and whole - sometimes they label it morality and sometimes they label it ancestor worship and sometimes they label it national pride, and they try to re-discover this infinite thing through religion, war, bombs, etc. What makes the crisis modern is the very idea of loss, the feeling that there is something missing that used to be there, something that the passage of time has taken away. Of course, that's a very loose definition of modern that I'm using.
I don't know.