condemned modern. can’t escape facts history living age dominated inst — David Watson, Beyond Bookchin: Preface a Future Social Ecology

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We are condemned to be modern. We can’t escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by instrumental rationality, even as we look for ways out of it… But it has become our historic responsibility to acknowledge the continuing importance of myth, at a level beyond science, in realizing a more organic, holistic relation to the world. A future social ecology would transcend both anti-Enlightenment reaction and [a] reified Enlightenment counter-reaction, which remain only fragmented polarities within bourgeois modernity.

David Watson, Beyond Bookchin: Preface for a Future Social Ecology

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