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Postmodern Trendoid III
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Looking at the history of thought since the reintroduction of the texts of antiquity it comes as no surprise that we have, as you put it, come to "dogmatic humanism". I wouldn't call it "plagarism", as you have, but rather, the outcome of one idea following from another and them become deeply entrenched in the psyche, which, due to this deep entrenchment, falsely interprets today's ideas as solid reality. From what I can make out, you are reaching for something "other" than a "way of life" created by human rationality that has a simple ends-means approach - like capitalist social Darwinism?
There have been thinkers that have tried to break this mould: Levinas, Heidegger, even certain streams of thought in Nietzsche and Marx. For example, there's quite a bit of talk in Nietzsche circles about reintroducing the wisdom of Heraclitus. Heraclitus is the philsopher of becoming; the endless flow of existence that never stops into being. Every moment is spontaneous becoming, however, when society is regulated to the extent ours is, becoming is stiffled and being is arrived at; hence our rationality, logic, and extremely repetitive and monotonous lifestyles, which many try to escape through drinking, shopping and watching sport.
There are ideas out there, it's just that with tabloids, television and the instantiated work ethic, none of it gets through unless they can be reconfigured to support the status quo.
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