#postmoderism

I absolutely recommend that you take some time to listen to the full Jonathan Pageau and Paul Kingsnorth discussion, but if pressed for time, I think it's critical to hear Kingsnorth's assessment of the current tenability of atheism.

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As I've argued for sometime now, a Meta/Postmodern atheistic worldview is only socially and logically viable in the context of a decadent culture, which ironically provides all of the necessities of life directly to our doors in an intangible, or might I say, "magical" way. The further we are from the land, from the cycle of birth and death, and from the refining work of challenging in-person, peer relationships, the more willing we are to embrace a mathematically unrealistic narrative informed by randomness, chaos, and metaphysical autonomy. Broadly speaking, it's most typically the byproduct of unfettered abundance, and championed most loudly by the most materially wealthy but relationally bankrupt generations.

Funnily enough, we can use our 21st century dietary choices, which also suffer from the effects of over-abundance, to draw a levitous parallel to this epistemological hangover. To this point, Anthony Bourdain was famously quoted in his criticism of veganism by calling it "a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent." Conversely, he also observed that no one in any of the third-world countries that he frequented is a vegan by choice, underlining the absurdity behind the decadent rejection of the biological fact of human omnivorism.

This trend toward embracing abundance-fueled asceticism in lieu of the substantive, whether in the form of a grilled chicken sandwich or a personal Godhead, is downright absurd -- especially in light of the dumpster fire culture that this arbitrary asceticism has birthed.

Extra credit to anyone who reads through Paul Kingsnorth's excellent personal essay "The Cross and The Machine" on First Things.

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