2208091300Tu GRAND NARRATIVES?

A ‘grand narrative’ is an umbrella term that includes a group of ‘narratives,’ that together harmoniously validates a general perception, huddled together under it?

Post-modernism is nihilism re-applied to the ‘grand narrative’ of modernity as if it were an individual human beings?

The ‘culture war’ now underway is is a struggle between the modern narrative that now encompasses all our known history to date; and Marxist/Post-Modernism as allied (for sinister purposes individually and exclusively their own) grand narratives unto themselves? If you were to analogize this culture war, it could be likened to two wrestlers fighting one single wrestler? “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” applies perfectly to explain why two grand narratives in their own right would team up to destroy their common enemy – reason?

Put a more succinct way, the current culture war is a battle to determine if human history is to be viewed through a lens of ‘power’ or though a lens of ‘value’ – that is the central question before human existence today? Is human history one of constant struggling for ‘power’ or is it one of constant struggle for competence value?

PS1. Please do correct any errors you discern herein as I’ve never tried to articulate it before and I’m prone to error(s) – thanks in advance?

PS2. Please excuse this post addressing only the peripheries of the many subjects that could’ve been addressed?

Posted by: Hoover Institution ~ Apr 29. 2022
“The Importance of Being Ethical, with Jordan Peterson”

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Lyotard's term for the totalizing narratives or metadiscourses of modernity which have provided ideologies with a legitimating philosophy of history. For example, the grand narratives of the Enlightenment, democracy, and Marxism. Hayden White (b.1928), an American historian, suggests that there are four Western master narratives: Greek fatalism, Christian redemptionism, bourgeois progressivism, and Marxist utopianism. Lyotard argues that such authoritarian universalizing narratives are no longer viable in postmodernity, which heralds the emergence of ‘little narratives’ (or micronarratives, petits récits): localized representations of restricted domains, none of which has a claim to universal truth status. Critics suggest that this could be seen as just another grand narrative, and some have seen it as Eurocentric.”

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ni·hil·ism
/ˈnīəˌliz(ə)m/
noun

1. the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless.

Similar: negativity, cynicism, pessimism, rejection, repudiation, renunciation, denial, abnegation, disbelief, nonbelief, unbelief, skepticism, lack of conviction, absence of moral values, agnosticism, atheism, nontheism.

▪ extreme skepticism maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence.

▪ the doctrine of an extreme Russian revolutionary party c. 1900 which found nothing to approve of in the established social order.

Word Origin:
early 19th century: from Latin nihil ‘nothing’ + -ism.

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