Notes on Postmodernism, New Age and Fascism
compiled by G. A. Morrison
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1.Introduction: parallel aspects of Postmodernism, New Age and Fascism
2.World view determines social reality
3.Decline of Classic Christianity; a brief history of Christianity
4.Marxism
5.Demystification of nature
6.Transition to postmodernism: aspects (fear of evil spirits, etc)
7.New Age Popular: New Age and Churches, and Science, narcissism, and UFO sci fi religion, and radical environmentalism, animal rights.
8.Postmodern academics and relation to New Age.
9.Nietzsche
10.Deconstruction
11.National Socialism and Nature Religion
12.Conclusion
**Introduction As the traditional religious basis of society has weakened over the past two or three centuries, some -at first sight- unrelated, bizarre ideologies and faiths strange to secular rationalist eyes, have come into view: Recent examples: The New Age movement, the animal rights movement, and the mostly academic postmodernist movement, accompanied by the revival of a radical form of orthodox religion known as fundamentalism.
We have seen the rise and defeat of several major quasi religious movements in our century. The collapse of the spiritual force and the temporal armor of Marxism. The decay of Liberalism. The military but not spiritual defeat of Nazism. “We live in an interregnum, an interval between strong ideologies.” - Lilienfeld, K.
We appear to be repeating Roman history, except that this time the process is going in reverse, from a weakening transcendent monotheism to an polytheistic immanence. This set of notes and references is intended to point out common features of the many facets of the New Consciousness, or Postmodern Consciousness movement which is beginning to overshadow secularism and traditional religion in the 20th century. The main feature of the ascendant world view is the idea of magical thought, a resacralized nature, or immanence, implying one-world politics and nihilistic ethics. By magic is meant the use of human will to control fate.
Contrary to the expectation of many sociologists of the ‘60s, religion has not expired in the face of modernity. The idea was that everyone would finally become enlightened secularists and religion would decline and vanish. Ironically, that in itself was a kind of millennial idea. This is secular humanism translated into political terms, essentially what Europeans would call Socialism. Secular humanism is seen to generate an insufficient level of myth-making or spirituality to sustain the human need for enchantment.
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