A modern aesthetic is philosophically reformed and characterized by intellectual clarity.
Modernism of the late nineteenth century rejected tradition while retaining its general structures, hierarchies, and essential human values. Late in the twentieth century, a fully nihilistic strain of thought represented itself as "postmodern", characterized by academic posturing, shallow, banal pretension, and nugatory gibberish, realized in the dead Sargasso of the contemporary moment now.
The reality of the future, and of possible futures, will not be ultimate triumph of failed ideas that bound themselves to early modernism, these being scientific materialism and collectivism in all their social, economic, political and cultural guises. but a reassertion of independent thought and freedom of expression.
Modernism of the late nineteenth century rejected tradition while retaining its general structures, hierarchies, and essential human values. Late in the twentieth century, a fully nihilistic strain of thought represented itself as "postmodern", characterized by academic posturing, shallow, banal pretension, and nugatory gibberish, realized in the dead Sargasso of the contemporary moment now.
The reality of the future, and of possible futures, will not be ultimate triumph of failed ideas that bound themselves to early modernism, these being scientific materialism and collectivism in all their social, economic, political and cultural guises. but a reassertion of independent thought and freedom of expression.
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