The hopes of modernity, including modern theology, are noble ones.
Not exact matches
But the victims
of modernity, and those
of us in solidarity with them, contradict the
hopes of those who would manage the ever increasing crises
of modernity through more adroit use
of the techniques
of social engineering and bureaucratic professionalism.
In the face
of the spiritual poverty
of liberal
modernity, Dugin places his
hopes in Dasein, which takes the form
of the arresting, animating forces that arise from below: desire, instinct, ethnos, or history's consolidated remains.
One
hopes that this is possible within the framework
of the movements
of peoples like that
of the dalits, the tribals, the fisherfolk and women who are today victims
of modernity turned destructive.
Without rooting their celebration
of earthly festivities and food in a transcendent realm where real truth provides standards for behavior and gives meaning to gatherings around tables, I fear they will remain as atomized as ever — and that their resolve to have ever more dinner parties in
hopes of slowing the evaporating
of modernity will do little to help.
Modernity can not
hope in the biblical God, founded as it is in a declaration
of independence from him.
Two thoughts I
hope you can comment on: the Maori culture in the past would preserve the ritual tattooing
of their chieftains by preserving their heads after death — the idea
of a permanent archive and the furtherance
of an oral storytelling tradition that film represents for us in
modernity.
«I
hope it is also a sign that the voices
of reason and
modernity are gaining acceptance inside the building.»