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17382580 No.17382580 [Reply] [Original]

Why is it that most thinkers prior to World War 2 were deeply pessimistic and insightful about the perils of modernity but after the war most people celebrated the modern era?

>> No.17382585
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>>17382580
Stupid!- Stupid!- Stupidity!

>> No.17382586

>>17382580
>but after the war most people celebrated the modern era
Uhhhhhh proof?

>> No.17382813

>>17382580
>Why is it that most thinkers prior to World War 2 were deeply pessimistic and insightful about the perils of modernity but after the war most people celebrated the modern era?

The answer to that is very simple.

These writers were stripped off their funding.

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With the help of heaven,

>pessimistic
>insightful
Pick on. Seriously there is no wisdom in pessimism. Its like being given the only gift you've ever gotten in life and then complaining about it and critiquing the giver.

Several factors though to answer your question. 1. is: people are still largely pessimistic but their views are not popularised and are downed out by the false optimism of hyper liberal techno affirmationist futurism.
2. Industrialism created television, greater access to consumer goods for a broader swarthe of people so the middle class was/is capable of accepting point 1.
3. Your wrong. Most people were more skeptical than ever about humanity and our fate after the atrocities of the first world war. Your probably just an insulated middle class american zoomer.
4. The rise of hedonism and the short-circuiting of the brains limbic system in response to the hightened stimuli pumped into the public domain by the media. Check out the documentaries 'the century of the self' and 'hyper normalisation' if you haven't yet already.

>> No.17383040

massive propaganda campaign by the allies.

>> No.17383144

>>17382580
The fuck are you talking about? Things became even more pessimistic after WWII. Just look at the critique of Enlightenment by Adorno and Horkheimer. The scepticism toward Whig history cemented even further with Foucault, postmodernism, etc. Only Anglos still think modernity in its present state is good.

>> No.17383156

>>17382580
Simple, WW1 was shocking and traumatic, made people very pessimistic. The victory of WW2 gave people hope for a new world and saw rapid social and technological advancement

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>>17382580
Due to the collapse of classical education and the self-anesthetization of the survivors culture collapsed and we lost the insight to perceive the nightmare we inhabit.

>> No.17383485

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv0RPHVeF6s

>> No.17383543

>>17382580
I was under the impression that it was the opposite. At least before WW1, people were much more optimistic about progress than after WW2. WW1 bitchslapped European consciousness pretty hard, it's when the machinist despair really set in.