A New Imperialism

“But actually, in the postmodern milieu, awareness doesn’t grow and nothing discloses anything–except for an occasional contour. Old patterns are hard to break, and we urge our authors to redouble their efforts at their sanctification. When they tell us to lay off the violence, I detect the contours of a new imperialism. Why are they telling us what to do? But they are good men, and their recovery is not long in coming. They turn to applaud MacIntyre who was apparently quite busy getting ten pounds of ethics into a five-pound narrative context” (Contours of Post Maturity, p. 12).