Juice15, Habermas

“… we must admit to ourselves that this modernism arouses a much fainter response today than it did fifteen years ago”( Habermas 100).

This quote by Habermas made me wonder what reasons could be the cause of this faint response. The first idea I could think of is we are experiencing the end of one aura and starting to begin another one. I feel that people today are starting a new kind of instability and the explosion of media and language is contributing to that kind of instability and results in the faintness in response to modernism. This media and language explosion is causing a lot of system failures in today’s world and we are just trying to either relieve the pain or forget about it completely. “Although avant-garde is still considered to be expanding, it is supposedly no longer creative” (Habermas 101). This can tie into how we are just re inventing things and not following other ideas set out by other theorists. Ideas that have been thrown out there to fix some of this one by Bell. He states that a religious revival is the only solution to the problem. “Religious faith tied to a faith in tradition will provide individuals with clearly defined identities and existential security.” Another idea is to let the avant-garde venture into unknown territory. I feel the best way to liven up the response today is to learn and educate people about what is really going on and how it impacts the society and culture today, because I sure had no idea about any ideas about post modernism or modernism before a month ago.