#Meta narrative play full#

That is, a dominion whose fundamental imperative is the profit-imperative i.e., the logic of capitalism, which commands, “the maximization of profit, by any means necessary, at the lowest financial cost, as soon as possible” ((Michel Luc Bellemare. It is false and nonsense because bourgeois-capitalism encroaches upon every aspect of everyday life, stitching any sort of incommensurable narrative into a functionalist-capitalist dominion. 43.)) existing side by side in incommensurable independence, without any overarching meta-narrative terrorizing over the others in the name of homogeneity and totalitarian unity, is false and nonsense. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massimo (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984) p. In effect, post-modernism has not smashed to pieces all the grand-narratives of the Enlightenment, specifically bourgeois-capitalism which, itself, continues to stalk the bright and the dark corners of western civilization, weaving and grafting incommensurable global and local narratives into a massive totalitarian meta-narrative, namely, the logic of capitalism.Ĭontrary to Jean-Francois Lyotard, “the principle of a plurality of systems”, ((Jean-Francois Lyotard.

#Meta narrative play full#

The post-modern era cannot achieve full maturity under current bourgeois-capitalism conditions as the grand-narrative of bourgeois-capitalism continually impedes the overwhelming diversity and plurality that post-modernity champions and inherently demands. Western high-tech civilization can never fully enter the post-modern era without eradicating civilization of bourgeois-state-capitalism, namely, the meta-narrative of bourgeois-capitalism, that encrusted jewel, dead center, within the crown of the Enlightenment, which continues to infect and poison high-tech society with a most horrible sickness, insatiable avarice, an avarice for unlimited power and money. The Magickal Enchantment of Materialism: Why Marxists Need Neopaganism Paperback Bruce Lerroīarackodile Tears: Obitchuaries on the Obama Years Randy Shields AbramsĪmerican Exception: Empire and the Deep State Aaron Good War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine Norman SolomonĪtrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order A.B. Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire Douglas Valentine

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