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This is a path to more meaning and engagement, but at the cost of much more misery. Post-modernism is lame, but Lyotard's "tyranny of consensus" is real - the v

This is a path to more meaning and engagement, but at the cost of much more misery. Post-modernism is lame, but Lyotard's "tyranny of consensus" is real - the vast majority of people do NOT want to be challenged, and these days it feels like the ones that need to be challenged are on the edge of violence. At least in this time and place (2021 USA), keep your head down. At least for now.

musingsole 5y ago
> At least in this time and place (2021 USA), keep your head down. At least for now. No. Now is precisely the time when the insane need to be reminded that while outright sanity is impossible, we can, should and must be more sane than we are now. The tribes be damned.