The Crying of Lot 49. Group Read 2024

[Mark Kohut]

You've got some typos I think but all I can say is It was all more gradual
than your questions seem to imply, to me..

On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 7:59 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>>>
>>