Modern panic over comprehensible existence parallels prehistoric fear of nature

Evidence

Implicit in all this is the thud of the predictable second shoe, namely, the effacement of Nature, and its precapitalist agricultures, from the postmodern, the essential homogenization of a social space and experience now uniformly modernized and mechanized (where the generation gap passes between the models of the products rather than between the ecologies of their users), and the triumphant achievement of the kind of standardization and conformity feared and fantasized in the 1950s but now clearly no longer a problem for the people successfully molded by it (and who can no longer even recognize or thematize it as such). This is why we were led earlier to define modernism as the experience and the result of incomplete modernization, and to suggest that the postmodern begins to make its appearance wherever the modernization process no longer has archaic features and obstacles to overcome and has triumphantly implanted its own autonomous logic (for which, of course, at that point the word modernization becomes a misnomer, since everything is already “modern”). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 781 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

The protest against the vague, obscure, metaphysical character of such universals, the insistence on familiar concreteness and protective security of common and scientific sense still reveal something of that primordial anxiety which guided the recorded origins of philosophic thought in its evolution from religion to mythology, and from mythology to logic; defense and security still are large items in the intellectual as well as national budget. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 744 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The postmodern epoch erases nature and all residual archaic features from human experience — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 781; Technological utopias mask a fear of our embodied vulnerability; The demand for concreteness in philosophy stems from primordial anxiety — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 744 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The postmodern epoch erases nature and all residual archaic features from human experience #qualifies (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 781
• Technological utopias mask a fear of our embodied vulnerability #complicates (0.75)
• The demand for concreteness in philosophy stems from primordial anxiety #corroborates (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 744