Defeated anti-modern resistance persists latently and eventually uses modernity’s own tools

Evidence

And so the Jews were caught in the most ferocious of historical conflicts: that between the pre-modern world and advancing modernity. The conflict found its first expression in the overt resistance of the classes and strata of the ancien régime about to be uprooted, disinherited and ploughed out of their secure social locations by the new social order which they could not but perceive as a chaos. With the initial anti-modernist rebellion defeated and the triumph of modernity no longer in doubt, the conflict would move underground, and in its new latent state would signal its presence in the acute fear of the void, the never-satiated lust for certainty, paranoic mythologies of conspiracy and the frantic search for ever-elusive identity. Eventually, modernity would supply its enemy with sophisticated weapons only his defeat made possible. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 144

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The paradoxical arc — modernity’s victory generates the very anxieties and weapons later turned against its principles — is a load-bearing mechanism for how modern rationality enables exclusion, central to the reader’s toolbox.
• XREF: connects to: Anti-conformity movements reproduce the conformity they reject — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 728

Related

• Modernity consists in the destabilization of the subject, not mere progress (similarity 0.81)
• Modernity is best understood as compulsive, self-propelling modernization, not a completed state (similarity 0.80)
• Modernity generated a meta-incongruity whereby Jews symbolized the very disorder that unsettled everyone. (similarity 0.80)
• Racism is a thoroughly modern weapon serving pre-modern struggles (similarity 0.79)
• All Holocaust scholarship is ultimately a debate over modernity’s self-image. (similarity 0.79)
• Modern antisemitism is a learned theoretical product, not raw experience. (similarity 0.79)
• The Holocaust is a possibility modernity contains, not its paradigm (similarity 0.79)
• The Holocaust was a product of modernity, not pre-modern barbarity. (similarity 0.79)
• Nazi extermination was a legitimate offspring of the modern spirit, not a regression (similarity 0.78)
• Both dominant readings of the Holocaust leave sociology’s theory of modernity unchallenged (similarity 0.78)
• The Holocaust is a by-product of runaway modernist design (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Anti-conformity movements reproduce the conformity they reject #epitomizes (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 728