You mean the one where Modernity (Big MO) warred with the World?
Big MO lost and lost badly.
'Nature Bats Last' (and Nature bats long and deep) .
And in 1945, out of the resulting wreckage crawled PostModernity, aka POMO or simply PO.
All of us alive today - all of us - have spent the majority of our lives as 'PO folks' in the 65 years since 1945.
Our godparents ?
Some folks called Adorno and Horkheimer.
Forget the claim that modernist claim that 1945 means E=MC2.
Time has revealed that 1945's actual formula to be this:
WWII=MOgoesPO
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Why My Urgency ?
- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- 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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