Friday, June 25, 2010
We agree WHEN Mo started going PO, but not necessarily why
Martin Henry Dawson , on enlistment, 1915
My partner, Rebecca, has tried to explain the meaning behind the title of my latest blog "MO goes PO" .
All I can add is that there is overwhelming agreement that the Mo-to-Po revolution began fairly abruptly, in 1945.
You remember 1945, the end of 'double-u, double-u, two' , the so called last good war and the last good generation.
Few people have given a good account why PoMo began then, AND in the nations of the moral victors.
If the good guys are just won the war against the bad guys, why were the good guys leading the way in uneasily evaluating their own values ?
I hope "MO goes PO" succeeds in telling us why....
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- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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MO goes PO saws a bit like that 1950s American comic strip with the creatures from the florida everglades taking on Senator Joe, the red-baiter....
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