Live Your Own Truth? Finding Our Way Out of the Dead End of Propaganda, Mimesis and the Idea of Personal Genius to Begin the Process of Birthing a New Culture

It is vitally important that we learn how to once again "ground" ourselves. But we cannot do this with reason or science. We cannot do it with universals. The only way out is through.

57. Live Your Own Truth? Finding Our Way Out of the Dead End of Propaganda, Mimesis and the Idea of Personal Genius to Begin the Process of Birthing a New Culture

Critical theory. Post-modernism. Politically, these terms spark revulsion in many. They are looked upon as the cause of many of our problems today. Many have the thought that if we could just stamp out critical theory we could get rid of the political movement labeled “wokeness” and things could go back to normal. I wish this were true. Unfortunately, post-modernism, and with it critical theory, are intellectual movements that arose out of the problems created by modernism, by Enlightenment liberalism itself. The only way to properly grapple with critical theory is to acknowledge that in many ways they were right about modern liberalism. But the solution is not simply to get rid of post-modernism because the problems with modernity will remain and similar criticisms will resurface again and again. As the saying goes, the only way out is through.

What got me thinking about this again was a wonderful essay by

Duncan Reyburn

last week, which if you haven’t read, you should take the time to do …