What happens to the moral meaning of reproduction when a society loses confidence in the narratives that historically gave reproduction its meaning?
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There is a useful fiction that art exists outside the market and that the creative operates in a world governed by vision rather than viability. But the truth is, art has never been free of socioeconomic factors
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There is a useful fiction that art exists outside the market and that the creative operates in a world governed by vision rather than viability. But the truth is, art has never been free of socioeconomic factors
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What happens to the moral meaning of reproduction when a society loses confidence in the narratives that historically gave reproduction its meaning?
https://t.co/zByv6AyqCZ
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What happens to the moral meaning of reproduction when a society loses confidence in the narratives that historically gave reproduction its meaning?
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@robinhanson This holds true to modern stories today with superheroes being deity like figures that choose to be virtuous and this also explains as of late why these superhero films are preachy of the “everyone can be a hero ideal”
@robinhanson This is why is classic literature we see that the hector is one of the nine worthies even though ultimately he died to Achilles who was vastly more powerful due to being blessed by the Greek gods and with Greek stories being defined as Hellenistic Paganism
@robinhanson This is why in pagan stories in myth the gods are cruel because they are overwhelmingly powerful and often act in humanist ways versus Christian stories that teach that meaning is derived from suffering and personal accomplishment of overcoming obstacles aka faith or hope
@zeta_globin@Plinz This is relevant because it allows you to explain some political ideologies because right vs left has turned into essentialism vs constructivism
@zeta_globin@Plinz Eh, I disagree. Although I will say postmodernism, for example, is self-referential, and because of that, it is very ambiguous, which allows for others to eventually bloat the definition that was ill-defined to begin with.