/lit/ - Literature

>>16991784
>>16991822
What if I told you that those distinctions no longer matter and that the methodologically heterodox bastard children of postmodernism and the Frankfurt School pozz Western civilization in alliance with the liberal media industrial complex?

>>16744686
The Enlightenment failed because it rejected the fundamentals of Aristotelian metaphysics, thereby allowing for a foundational crisis later down the road. I think it is not very surprising that the countries with the strongest beliefs in the fundamentals of natural law came out on top. And those countries are the United States and Great Britain. Now of course even their understanding of natural law is faulty and corrupted into the idea of natural human rights by way of Locke but it's still better than any political theory produced in continental Europe. Leo Strauss very well knew this.

>>14947108
Ok, let me give you the basic gestalt. The western cultural canon was solidified in the 19th century, thereby losing all its dynamic impetus. Everything after that is a variation of previously established forms or formlessness. This is what we call post-modernity. Art has exhausted itself, self-expression turns into bland mixture of unanchored individualism in an indifferent mass society. Social complexity is ever increasing until it collapses under its own weight, leading to a civilizational rupture and (possible though not guaranteed) rebirth. Said rebirth could be channeled through organizing our thymotic energies in wrath collectives with a set utopian goal. This has been tried several times in the 20th century (see fascism and communism) but failed. I argue that the Catholic Church could fill that void.