The mode of modernity, that trope of 'being with it', that emerged a short time after the decades of intense industrialization, might yet prove to be a very insidious thing. The reason for this is that it displaces the the general sense of how it is that things hang together -- the canvas or background of cognition and social form. The basic premiss is that the introspective stillness is replaced by a doing, lifting the individual into the energies of encounter. But my question is whether we then have the same disposition towards our own judgments made in the context of this energetic engagement, or whether we unconsciously devalue these second judgments, however useful they might prove to be in the social encounters, as not being our own. Even though we persist in maintaining the thought, and think that we have done our task in the context of the time by doing so.
Perhaps we have retained the power of judgment, and simply aren't using it. Sowing some doubt as to the secular world might therefore might be, specifically in the context of the present time, useful in a more broad sense.