I deeply wish this were not so, but it is. Feel free to comment on other post-modern fantasies that you know of. — Bitter Crank
Marxism relies on an emancipatory meta-narrative (dialectical materialism). Postmodern deconstructs all grand meta-narratives , like the narrative of progress or thesis-antithesis-synthesis. — Joshs
Lyotard said that. Not sure who belongs to the postmodern school. — Jackson
All well and good about the sources of post modernism. What about too much magic expected of magma? — Bitter Crank
new lead — Bird-Up
We are up against time. Yes, we will transition to fossil free energy eventually, because we will have used it all up--if industrial civilization lasts long enough. — Bitter Crank
(1800s - 1900s), — Agent Smith
Scope insensitivity influences how bad people consider the extinction of the human race to be. For example, when people are motivated to donate money to altruistic causes, the quantity they are willing to give does not increase linearly with the magnitude of the issue: people are roughly as willing to prevent the deaths of 200,000 or 2,000 birds.[28] Similarly, people are often more concerned about threats to individuals than to larger groups. — Wikipedia
A variation of this analogy instead compresses Earth's 4.6 billion year-old history into a single day: While the Earth still forms at midnight, and the present day is also represented by midnight, the first life on Earth would appear at 4:00 am, dinosaurs would appear at 10:00 pm, the first flowers 10:30 pm, the first primates 11:30 pm, and modern humans would not appear until the last two seconds of 11:59 pm. — Wikipedia
Eventually (in a few billions of trillion years) all this will be stopped due to heat entropy, but hey. — god must be atheist
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