AtDTDA : 12 "My Native land is not a country" 326

[Paul Mackin]

On Jun 29, 2007, at 4:55 AM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
>
>              MB:
>              what I was wondering is, isn't the spirit of 68 which in
>              many ways is the coequal and culmination of that 60s
>              stuff, I say, I say, isn't that entity animated by the
>              same stream of thought as po-mo?
>
> What I'm wondering is: is Post-Modernism really "Post-God"?, where the
> old mono-theological myths eventually perish, as did [for the most  
> part]
> the old polyandry of the deities? Or is it the intellectual  
> equivalent of the
> Neo-Cons?


But modernism is supposed to be post God (more or less anyway), so  
postmodernism would have to be post-post God or possibly  neo-God.

Or maybe neo-theo.

Except for the fact that what  you're talking about is the pursuit of  
ANY kind of advanced knowledge or enlightenment existing beyond the  
bounds of the merely rational--God not necessarily being required.

A nice term would have been neo-creo (creo equalling I believe)  
except neo-creo is already in use by the intelligent design people.

The beliefs or quests under discussion here seem to easily fit into  
that wide array of pursuits  said to have been freed up and made  
intellectually
respectable by French structural and post-structural philosophy of  
forty years ago. E.g., feminism, post-colonial studies, gay studies,  
anti-globalism. In other words, postmodernism as it still may exist  
(to some degree anyway) today.