I don't agree with Kingsnorth on everything. But I'm delighted to see the FP giving him a voice here.
People like Marc Andreessen are incapable of thinking like this, of thinking INTENTIONALLY about meaning and spirituality and narrative. Since the scientific revolution, we have systematically avoided thinking in these terms, set them asi…
I don't agree with Kingsnorth on everything. But I'm delighted to see the FP giving him a voice here.
People like Marc Andreessen are incapable of thinking like this, of thinking INTENTIONALLY about meaning and spirituality and narrative. Since the scientific revolution, we have systematically avoided thinking in these terms, set them aside. No concern for "final" or "formal" causes, in Aristotelian language, just "material" and "efficient" causes interest us.
The material results have been astounding. Extreme poverty has been radically reduced. That's wonderful.
But spiritually, we are poor, sickly, stunted, filthy street urchins.
And yet, we cannot do without meaning. Andreessen et al just fall into their semblances of it, thoughtlessly. They have no way even to address such questions.
I don't agree with Kingsnorth on everything. But I'm delighted to see the FP giving him a voice here.
People like Marc Andreessen are incapable of thinking like this, of thinking INTENTIONALLY about meaning and spirituality and narrative. Since the scientific revolution, we have systematically avoided thinking in these terms, set them aside. No concern for "final" or "formal" causes, in Aristotelian language, just "material" and "efficient" causes interest us.
The material results have been astounding. Extreme poverty has been radically reduced. That's wonderful.
But spiritually, we are poor, sickly, stunted, filthy street urchins.
And yet, we cannot do without meaning. Andreessen et al just fall into their semblances of it, thoughtlessly. They have no way even to address such questions.