Tag: philosophy
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defining the meaning crisis
I’ve been talking about the meaning crisis a lot. But most people that I talk to have never heard of it. That puts me in the position of having to define it in clear, simple terms. I need an elevator pitch for the meaning crisis — a definition that will suffice for a casual conversation.…
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playfulness, sincerity, and meaning-making
Modernism, with its certainty, idealism, and structure, was turned on its head by postmodern skepticism and deconstruction. The postmodernists vowed not to rest until every system and grand narrative was burned to the ground. But the flames are dying out, giving way to the constructive playfulness of post-postmodernism. Where postmodernism was destructive, post-postmodernism gives us…