(The restoration of the myth)
If the new
is not new, but only a state of
variation, then modernity remains
unfinished - as an empty reality.
The empty reality of our present. It
is not the idea itself or the theory of
a concept that is losing its
credibility, but it is the increasingly
visible structures and mechanisms that
are trying with all their might to
impose this idea or this theory as the
only true and correct one. It is the
violence of everything that makes us
doubt. This present violence on the
things, the nature and the violence on
the human being.
The interests of power put themselves
like a second skin over the attempts to
explain the world. Each attempt of
explanation turns out to be a tool of
legitimation.
The category "new" is
therefore an instrument of progress
rather than a property of matter. There
is already a separation between function
and aesthetics.
Modernity invented the looser
Neil Postman said: "We're enjoying
ourselves to death, but no one has
really understood the problem. Today,
the "shopping" generation has at least
recognized that we have now consumed
ourselves to death. But still, these
certain social mechanisms continue to
function: this entrenched game of
production and commodity relations. They
are our anthropological constants, and
they have now turned out to be
apocalyptic horsemen. But more:
So I
live in a world that is, on the one
hand, characterized by overconsumption,
and on the other hand, increasing
virtuality is displacing my reality. Do
I live in a world of incoherence? Again: The world is disenchanted -
don′t let this be true...
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