Intensified ephemerality drives a reactive craving for eternal truths and secure moorings.

Evidence

The greater the ephemerality, the more pressing the need to discover or manufacture some kind of eternal truth that might lie therein. The religious revival that has become much stronger since the late sixties, and the search for authenticity and authority in politics (with all of its accoutrements of nationalism and localism and of admiration for those charismatic and ‘protean’ individuals with their Nietzschian ‘will to power’) are cases in point. The revival of interest in basic institutions (such as the family and community), and the search for historical roots are all signs of a search for more secure moorings and longer-lasting values in a shifting world. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1843

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Future movements resort to incantations to reassure themselves of their cherished illusions. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 725; Celebration of transience conceals a longing for stability. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2041; Civilization’s bondage breeds longing that becomes worship of a transfigured nature (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Celebration of transience conceals a longing for stability. #corroborates (0.88) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2041
• Some irrational beliefs serve as stabilizing forces for survival. #corroborates (0.85) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 822
• Future movements resort to incantations to reassure themselves of their cherished illusions. #complicates (0.75) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 725
• Civilization’s bondage breeds longing that becomes worship of a transfigured nature #corroborates (0.72)
• The eternal becomes spirit by self-differentiating and sublating its own difference #expands (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 700