Sullen Blue Sky

"Modernity can and will no longer borrow the criteria by which it takes its orientation from the models supplied by another epoch; it has to create its normativity out of itself. Modernity sees itself cast back upon itself without any possibility of escape."

__Habermas (1987) The Philosophical Discourses of Modernity

I’m also currently reading Zizik and this reminds me of what he mentions about the struggle against capitalism. That it will be rootless, as if in a boat in water. An interesting thing Zizik mentions about globalization: “I think the way to react to globalization is to endorse it and demand even more radical globalization. For me, the problem of the present form of globalization is that it involves too much exclusion. It is false not because all particular differences are erased, but precisely because it involves radical exclusions…often those people, even those on the left, who resist globalization, resist it from ultimately reactionary positions.”

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"Modernity can and will no longer borrow the criteria by which it takes its orientation from the models supplied by another epoch; it has to create its normativity out of itself. Modernity sees itself cast back upon itself without any possibility of escape."