The Crying of Lot 49. Group Read 2024

[David Morris]

Modernity and the Loss of [Endless List of Valuable Things attributed to
EFFECTS of the ADVENT of Modernity]. Picking nits, but chicken/egg
questions arise here: Did we of actually lose the essence of the VALUES
these things, and THEN seek their replacement with the new creation of
MODERNITY?

But we can prioritize the importance of the “valuable things lost” and see
a cascade of losses stemming from a MOST VALUABLE (or most CAUSLE) of
things lost in the cascading conflagration.

 <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> “The disenchantment of the world” is a phrase that I take from Max Weber,
> who spoke of the eclipse of magical and animistic beliefs about nature as
> part of the more general process of “rationalization” which he saw as the
> defining feature of modernity in the West.
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 5:46 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> *1. Modern world has lost its: “enchantment [ ] spiritual/religious chain
>> of being”*
>>
>> A?) How/Why did “it” get lost?
>> B?) Shall we try to define “it”?  Or should we assume it is ACTUALLY
>> ineffable?
>>
>> *2.  Losing that connection in modernity[…]*
>>
>> A?) What? Big jump of assumptions (see 1.A? above)
>> B?) What about “Modern” makes it the change-maker?
>>
>