I'll check out your book. Modernists are only interested in things that affect them personally: their property values, children (most of the time) and personal health/safety. Images, gestures and sounds in time are all tools they use to gain and maintain power. Reason and gods mean nothing to them. Their desire for diversitopia is a kind of sublimation of the impulse for heaven or Elysian fields. They're not really serious, of course, because they're trapped in this world and cannot experience parousia, or an opening up to the divine.
I've been waiting for this one! Just ordered my copy.
I'll check out your book. Modernists are only interested in things that affect them personally: their property values, children (most of the time) and personal health/safety. Images, gestures and sounds in time are all tools they use to gain and maintain power. Reason and gods mean nothing to them. Their desire for diversitopia is a kind of sublimation of the impulse for heaven or Elysian fields. They're not really serious, of course, because they're trapped in this world and cannot experience parousia, or an opening up to the divine.