…Postmodernism…along…truth…(…Post-truth society…)…
…”So (today) many intellectuals will say, that we live in a postmodern world”…Prof. Stephen Hicks: Culture Wars 2.0 Session (1 of 4)
“Postmodernism is generally defined by an attitude of skepticism, irony, or rejection toward what it describes as the grand narratives and ideologies associated with modernism, often criticizing Enlightenment rationality and focusing on the role of ideology in maintaining political or economic power. Common targets of postmodern criticism include universalist ideas of objective reality, morality, truth, human nature, reason, science, language, and social progress. Accordingly, postmodern thought is broadly characterized by tendencies to self-consciousness, self-referentiality, epistemological and moral relativism, pluralism, and irreverence.” (Source:)
…”Post-truth society, in which is possible to assert things that have no factual basis”…”I think that Post-truth society is a reflection of something deeper, which is…the decline of trust…decline of the authority of institutions across the board…(ex trust in) corporations, labour unions, family, churches, political parties and so on…The causes of this are kind of complicated, I think actually technology plays a role…”(+++? / — -?, added)…Francis Fukuyama, Director of the Center Democracy, Development and Rule of Law / Stanford University
…”Even before the rise of internet and the rise of digital technologies, we in the US have a robust history of intervening in other countries’ elections, right…The Russian incursion in the 2016 election in the US was not the first time”…”In fact the majority of speech online right now (2019) is not being generated by humans, it’s being generated by machines” (algorithms /bots…)…”Of course these are technologies,which could be used for good or ill…What I am describing here is not that technologies are inherently evil, it’s how people are going to be using them”…”Yet I think that there are reasons to think that internet in general, AI in particular, poses a challenge to democracy that is unprecedented”…Stanford HAI 2019 Fall Conference — AI, Democracy and Elections
Hello! Above I again tried to quote brief passages from speeches, panels and videos given by really bright contemporary scientists in a quest for truth, transparency, democracy and justice, which up to my best believe is in the heart of www.newfinns.com…and hopefully beyond…In 2016, before the US Presidential elections, I tried to express my opinion about pretty similar discourse, but at my level, which is not Stanford or alike…So if you are interested in the subject, read and listen to the material given above. I should also confess, that given my diagnosis…or not…, back then I was unaware of the corruption of trust in the post-trust modern time we live in — also called Post-truth Society…And as you can see from the Stanford HAI 2019 Fall conference panel above, however BAD, fake news and disinformation, are only a partial problem/challenge, which the exponential development of Technology, poses lately…on Democracy and Humanity as a whole…Yet again, using the same technology, I am really grateful to Stanford, Wikipedia, Professor Stephen Hicks and all of you on the bright side of trust and knowledge, whoever and where-ever you might be….In that regard I also want to say that I am an orthodox christian, who…within God, believes in Democracy, Transparency and Justice in my EU or elsewhere on Earth…and yes I have Russian friends too…:)…
Finally quoting: “Law is not literature, but law is closer to poetry than it is to physics”…”because it’s interpretation is interpretive of the tradition in which it interprets” (from the Library of Congress, Washington DC), I would assume that post-truth and postmodernism, including AI, could bring a serious challenge to what happens also in Courts…Look however you take it, the 10 Commandments and their parallels from other cultures and scriptures are at the heart or the contemporary Constitutional/Common and related to it laws around the Globe, and a postmodernist “deconstructionist”, “post-structuralist”, “de-logocentrist” or so, interpretation of the Court interpretive tradition, could or already brings deterioration of trust, as we know it??? The latter is something that I assume and will investigate further, finishing with according to me a brilliant quote about tradition: “Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.” (Jaroslav Pelikan).
Kind regards,
Rostislav Dinkov
