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>post-secular

okay, i'll try to explain. it will be messy.

it came out of reading this essay, but it's essentially just saying feels > reals. with all that that entails, for good or for evil.

http://iasc-culture.org/THR/archives/Commodification/5.2FWard.pdf

and my own intimations as well, that whatever enlightenment sensibilities used to hold up the world to around 1990 or so are now in a state of deep rot, religion is on the rise, and other things. this isn't all bad, mind you. partly it's an effect of the internet and other things, lots of people waking up and realize that they are profoundly interconnected in many ways, planetary capitalism, much else. nobody's really 'outside' the system of things anymore, there are no hard and fast lines to be drawn.

i mean if you're a die-hard positivist and want to shit on all this continentalfaggery, of course, be my guest. people should try to act as logically and clear-headed as they can. but whatever post/modern consciousness is, it's not governed by the old rules we once played by.

or this, maybe much simpler: post-secular means that we have to acknowledge that within all postmodernity is a tacitly theistic core. you have to believe, in a basically religious sense, in something larger than you that is outside of yourself. i don't mean to say this morally but more ontologically. we can't, for the time being, presume a perfectly detached rationality anymore. postmodernism tried to sort of hide this but you can see in how batshit insane it is today, combined with the subject matter, that this simply is a dead-end project. theory becoming inseparable from subjectivity, we find ourselves required to acknowledge something in our thinking that comes from the Big Outside...whatever that is.

i don't know if that makes sense. probably it doesn't. but i'm happy to try and fumble around further if you'd like. it might help me as well.