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From the
Intercollegiate Review:
The modern world has now ended only in the sense that we have now seen
enough of it to judge it. Although we have reason to be grateful for the
wealth, health, freedom, and power that modern achievements have given
us, we know that the individual’s pursuits of security and happiness
will remain always pursuits—and not possessions. So even as the modern
world continues to develop, we can be free of its characteristic
delusion, its utopianism. We can speak of its strengths and its
limitations from a perspective “outside” modernity, and that perspective
is the foundation of conservatism today.
Conservatives can be (perhaps
the only) genuinely postmodern thinkers. The reason we can see beyond
the modern world is that its intention to transform human nature has
failed. Its project of transforming the human person into the autonomous
individual was and remains unrealistic; we can now see the limits of
being an individual because we remain more than individuals. The world
created by modern individuals to make themselves fully at home turns out
to have made human beings less at home than ever. (Read more.)
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