Stream of consciousness thread (caveat, I have no idea what I'm saying here but I'm gonna say it anyway)
Modernity isn't a set of ideas but rather an era unlike any other in recorded history, in that the rate of social change is so fast that tradition (i.e. "this has always worked for as long as we remember") is rendered unreliable
Before, tradition ruled supreme coz of its ability to predict & guide as to what would or wouldn't work. This inspired awe, but also programmed people to think a certain way. It had a collective long-term success rate that made individual opinion seem fickle and unimportant.
After this era, so many of the very fundamentals that determine social facts have not just changed, but changed so frequently from generation to generation, that traditional knowledge became unreliable. The institutions built upon tradition lost prestige (and tried to fight back)
The whole "response to modernity" thing requires unpacking what made tradition so valid before. Some things will have to be questioned, others abandoned. What's more important - the values or the rules? The principles or the institutions? Lived experiences or ideologies?
But ignoring modernity, resenting it, resisting it, trying to reverse it etc, all of that won't work. It's also egotistical to want history to stop just coz you don't like it. You must accept what has changed if you're gonna succeed in carrying over your values into a new world.
Now I'm gonna log off coz I'm exhausted
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