Metamodern discourse has long since reached the planet's spiritual noosphere, that celestial chaos in which the wildest speculations roam. They all have one thing in common: the search for a new religion, a new mysticism, something that leaves behind the boring or even ossified theses and dogmas of yesterday, not to mention the completely unreflective materialism that is anything but rational. The only question is: Where do you look? Where do you want to find what you're looking for? What methods do you use to search?
I found an interesting post on Brendan Graham Dempsey's blog. Title: “Reconstruction Religion”.
Dempsey recommends creating one's own, entirely personal myth, one's own narrative—but is that really the way? Wouldn't our consciousness then regress to a time of arbitrariness, when there was no king in Israel “and everyone did what seemed right to them” (Judges 17:6)? Or, even more sharply, Isaiah 1:3: “The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, and my people do not understand.”? Both quotations lament a metaphysical anarchy, which, for example, in the revolutionary Book of Ruth, is seen as the cause of a nationwide mental impoverishment is portrayed.
Is the goal really the “reconstruction of religion”? Isn't this formulation of the goal itself already outdated? An alternative approach would be maximum openness, based on the motto, “I know that I know nothing”—a radical, equally mental A new beginning, which the Sermon on the Mount places at the very beginning of its strict set of rules.
