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Thoughts on the modern/pomo divide from Paul Ray's "The Rise of Integral Culture"
"The End of Modernism.
Increasingly, the solutions offered by Modernism seem to trail ever-graver problems in their wake.
One way of conceptualizing the "Great Divide" is that we are coming to the end of the Modern era. Modernism is less likely to collapse than to change to forms previous generations wouldn't recognize. These changes will almost certainly include:
1) The end or drastic change of many familiar ways of living: both the civility and the dangers of big city urban life; the assembly-line-driven heavy-industry workplaces; the large-scale bureaucratic workplaces (both business and government); and the powerful, patriotic nation-states, as we have tried to live and work in them.
2) The end or complete reworking of a world of ideas and interpretations: for instance, those eyeglasses supplied by Modernism called scientism, positivism, philosophical materialism, romanticism, and secular humanism as our minds have peered through them.
3) The end or drastic bringing to responsibility of whole systems of political and economic exchange: socialism, communism, and capitalism.
4) The end or stylistic transformation of many forms of visual art, music, literature and architecture that were shaped by the modernist mentality.-Paul Ray