26.)) across high-tech western civilization. 7.)) has meant “a loss of meaning” ((Ibid, p. xxxiv.)) That is, maximum performance in achieving maximum power and maximum capitalist profitability across everyday life and across socio-economic existence, pertaining to a select few who are so lucky to exemplify the logic of capitalism in all its opulent splendor.Īccording to Jean Francois Lyotard, the dissolution and de-legitimization of grand narratives, due to technological progress, which is constantly moving in “the direction …the computerization of society”, ((Ibid, p. ![]() 37.)) which have vanquished the Enlightenment and its meta-narratives to the social periphery and reduced society to a matter of money, profit and “the logic of maximum performance”. 37.)) and that “the decline of can be seen as an effect of the development of techniques and technologies, since the Second World War”, ((Ibid, p. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massimo (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984) p. The primary characteristic of the post-modern age i.e., the post-modern condition, is that “grand narrative lost…credibility” ((Jean-Francois Lyotard. The Structural-Anarchism Manifesto: (The Logic of Structural Anarchism Versus The Logic of Capitalism), (Montréal: Blacksatin Publications Inc., 2016).)) for all narratives i.e., language-games, big or small, regardless of genre and/or expediency. That is, a dominion whose fundamental imperative is the profit-imperative i.e., the logic of capitalism, which commands, “the maximization of profit, by any means necessary, at the lowest financial cost, as soon as possible” ((Michel Luc Bellemare. It is false and nonsense because bourgeois-capitalism encroaches upon every aspect of everyday life, stitching any sort of incommensurable narrative into a functionalist-capitalist dominion. 43.)) existing side by side in incommensurable independence, without any overarching meta-narrative terrorizing over the others in the name of homogeneity and totalitarian unity, is false and nonsense. ![]() In effect, post-modernism has not smashed to pieces all the grand-narratives of the Enlightenment, specifically bourgeois-capitalism which, itself, continues to stalk the bright and the dark corners of western civilization, weaving and grafting incommensurable global and local narratives into a massive totalitarian meta-narrative, namely, the logic of capitalism.Ĭontrary to Jean-Francois Lyotard, “the principle of a plurality of systems”, ((Jean-Francois Lyotard. ![]() The post-modern era cannot achieve full maturity under current bourgeois-capitalism conditions as the grand-narrative of bourgeois-capitalism continually impedes the overwhelming diversity and plurality that post-modernity champions and inherently demands. Western high-tech civilization can never fully enter the post-modern era without eradicating civilization of bourgeois-state-capitalism, namely, the meta-narrative of bourgeois-capitalism, that encrusted jewel, dead center, within the crown of the Enlightenment, which continues to infect and poison high-tech society with a most horrible sickness, insatiable avarice, an avarice for unlimited power and money.
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