14 December 2011 - hyperactive passivity

Prescribed by law or prescribed by a physician? Doesn’t matter, some will listen and some won’t. In the 20th century it finally penetrated that ideas are uncertain and relative, and there was a somewhat Kuhnian but nonscientific revolution in our misunderstanding of many fields. Any decade now, I estimate, the other scale will drop and the ponderous zeitgeist will see that not only can we know nothing, as a species we can’t take action. Postmodernism will fall at last, overprinted by a philosophy of hyperactive passivity.