Intellect: dogmatism, conscience and the force of will.

Antistar211 10 hours ago

Question in regard to Modernity. In your expierence where and how far does modernity expand? For example modernity is present in Australia and Britain but is significantly less present in Eastern Europe. Does that make sense? Or am I talking jibberish?

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Jennifer Armstrong 50 seconds ago

+Antistar211 I think we really can understand Western modernity, at least in my sense of it, as the mentality of the bourgeois revolutionaries. Having said that, I am not sure how far it has spread, only what it looks like and what it feels like to be on the inside of it (or more aptly on the outside, trying to get onto the inside of it, to make sense of it).
Modernity expands wherever there is the modern attitude that "we" have won BECAUSE we are not strong, but BECAUSE "we" hold a system of values that is self-policing and involves the policing of others whenever they seem to put on airs or appear to be strong. That is the attitude of modernity, because it revolves around an absence of aristocratic values, rather than inscribing positive values of its own. And its facade of strength is maintained through self-policing.
In a context where strength (belief in oneself) is not seen as the definitive enemy, we have not yet entered modernity. There is, though, the phony belief in oneself and put-on mannerism of the American type, who is really a salesperson, even if by outward appearance a movie star or politician.
And there is Eastern Europe, which also seems very modern in many regards, although I haven't been there and am not sure about it.

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