NP? modernity, terrorism, truth and relevance? CORRECTED

[Robert Mahnke]

Just thinking about Gopnik's statement here: You can't have
"'fundamentalism' alone" -- fundamentalism is a reaction to modernity.
 Without modernity, there is no fundamentalism.

Analogously, bluegrass music emerged as a genre only after World War II,
though obviously drawing on earlier traditions.


On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> " But all of our experience suggests that it is not “fundamentalism” alone
> but an aching tension between modernity and a false picture of a purer
> fundamentalist past that makes terrorists."
>
> This is Adam Gopnick in The New Yorker today about the marathon bombers.
> Does this apply to any of P's characters in AtD?
> Does this apply to P's vision? Is Hume's condemning what she sees as P's
> moral failure in Against the Day, refuted, or attempted
> to be seen (refuted) by P's vision of the cohesion of life in the Olde
> Europe scenes---the communities of the villages?
>
>
> Or, a few have remarked that DeLillo best captured the meanings and
> understandings of the characters in our recent acts of local terror. True,
> where?
> You can answer this question instead.
>
> Extra credit for both.
>
>
>
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