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THE WAY THINGS ARE: The meaning of life is to be found in thinking about what is reality and the beauty of reality is to be found in our DNA's memorization of all forms that have been successfully retained along the four billion years of evolution of the principle of life on Gaia our earth. In the end what I mean to say is that beauty is something objective and what we call ugliness is then simply our unconscientious feel of something evolution did not retain.
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  • Paul Cliteur: Falling prey to relativism - signandsight

    Rated Feb 06 2007 • 1 review • globalization, postmodernity, worldviews, modernity • signandsight.com

    Falling prey to relativism
    in Sign and Sight by Paul Cliteur

    For many years, the official credo of the Dutch government was multiculturalism, an approach that fitted well with Dutch history and culture. Multiculturalism is nowadays affiliated with a postmodern outlook. The pivotal ideas of this vision of life are relativism (cultural relativism, in particular), a negative attitude toward Western political tradition, the cultivation of collective guilt for the transgressions of the colonial past, and other real or presumed black pages in Western history.


    Falling prey to relativism Paul Cliteur is a professor of jurisprudence at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.
    Freedom cannot be decreed There are many reasons why it would be desirable for Muslims, or anybody else, to feel free to reinterpret their religious texts. But this surely is not the business of the state, for that opens the way to authoritarianism. By Ian Buruma
    Mr Buruma's stereotypes Turkish German author Necla Kelek responds to Ian Buruma in the debate on multiculturalism and integration in Europe.
    Modern and mythless: Turkey today Zafer Senocak looks at the mythological vacuum in a Turkey that remains divorced from its past.



    This is a suite to my post Enlightenment fundamentalism or racism of the anti-racists?

    I guess my commentary in this last post takes an even higher significance the more this European debate advances. In sum "the human way" does not change but one thing is clear modernity does not offer an answer to "the human way" and this is how modernity is confronted today by fundamentalism... Zafer Senocak's article about Turkey best illustrates modernity's fundamental flaw. Yes, even in a rationalist environment, people still long to believe... hey hey... in what rationality does not succeed to explain to them...

    The ignorance or the rejection of that basic fact of life does not help rationality.

    And so the question of the formation of a postmodern worldview, that would offer to all citizens of this earth at least some acceptable "truths", appears the most centrally important question that confronts humanity in this age of fast change at a global level...

    And in the US... Dispatch From Gomorrah, Savaging the Cultural Left