For the most part, those in power are modern liberals, and in the face of crisis will employ the accepted methods of modernism to apprehend, analyze, and "solve" the problem. The usual prescription is an application of heavier doses of liberalism, which usually makes the problem worse.
As to when this all this breaks down depends on what one considers the tipping point.
I don't think modernism has any theory of social order, other than that society is some kind of self-regulating machine, and therefore when social order collapses it has no remedy other than tyranny. This also suggests that modernity really can't "read the tea leaves," so to speak, because social disorder is not in its vocabulary; it is not a category to which it is attuned. Modernity assumes that modernism/liberalism automatically creates and leads to "progress;" therefore, social regression or disintegration is not on its radar screen.
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For the most part, those in power are modern liberals, and in the face of crisis will employ the accepted methods of modernism to apprehend, analyze, and "solve" the problem. The usual prescription is an application of heavier doses of liberalism, which usually makes the problem worse.
As to when this all this breaks down depends on what one considers the tipping point.
I don't think modernism has any theory of social order, other than that society is some kind of self-regulating machine, and therefore when social order collapses it has no remedy other than tyranny. This also suggests that modernity really can't "read the tea leaves," so to speak, because social disorder is not in its vocabulary; it is not a category to which it is attuned. Modernity assumes that modernism/liberalism automatically creates and leads to "progress;" therefore, social regression or disintegration is not on its radar screen.