Monday, March 20, 2017
#AfterModernity and its postmodern schtick || John Pesebre
"[What] postmodernism means . . . is after modernism." - David Foster Wallace
Ang irony ng manifestation ng postmodernity sa ilan sa atin sa mga evangelicals ay nakita na rin ng isa sa mga icons ng postmodernity nung 90s America na si David Foster Wallace. Sabi niya, "Postmodern irony and cynicism’s become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy." And the irony is when you extend sa mga diskarte nila after magamit nila yan. Yung tila baga mga items (ie, reason, logic, etc) na buset na buset sila sa mga critiques nila, ay yun din ang gagamitin nila to rebuild a new structure. Ganyan ang condition ng ilang naive pomo evangelicals dito sa atin. Kumbaga pipintasan ang damit mo, tapos pag hinubad mo at iwan, dadamputin niya at siya ang magsusuot.
As an example, let's take si #AfterModernity at ang kanilang pag downplay ng reason. May mga Dostoevskian "beauty will save the world" pa yan -- isa yan ang kanilang weaponries to diminish the role of reason. Paulit ulit nila yang gagawin. Buti na lang laging may nagtatanong sa kanila to clarify. Nung una hindi pa nakakahalata kaya sumasagot palagi using yung kanyang homespun logic. Pero later na realize yata kaya nag resort na lang sa sloganeering at mga pithy statements na very obvious naman na conclusion nila pero hindi na nila babanggitin yung method of inference nila. Bakit? Kasi nga kung inferential ka, nag-iinvoke ka ng logic.
Alam nila yung irony kaya maikli na lang sumagot. Walang hint ng inference. At yan ang malimit na nakaka buset sa evangelical kuno na postmodernity dito sa Pinas. Sabi ni Wallace, "a lot of the schticks of post-modernism — irony, cynicism, irreverence — are now part of whatever it is that’s enervating in the culture itself.”
"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord." - Isaiah 1:18
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*Schtick - a gimmick, comic routine, style of performance, etc., associated with a particular person.
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