Metamodernism poem, insufficiency of Abrahamism as art

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS6t56U9tBg

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For those truly interested in the human condition, in different points of view, in possible ways of being, there exists art so much more sophisticated than the Bible.
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When I encounter such artifacts, allowing them to take me further through the landscape, I sometimes look back, far in the distance, to see the Abrahamists arguing over their one book and its Known Greatness. I think of all the sights I have seen and internal vistas I've glimpsed that they shall never meet in their birth town. I weep.
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Not for a single moment, however, do I consider returning. With a jangle on my boots, I step again, certain in this direction lies growth.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6G88y9g1lI

K-Pax claps hands with African Americans in their southern Christian church
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(The above line is meant to contradict the above several lines)
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(It's performative metamodernism)
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(And an implication that Abrahamism, while insufficient, makes up important components of the modern landscape)
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Thus, rather than simply signalling a return to naïve modernist ideological positions, metamodernism considers that our era is characterised by an oscillation between aspects of both modernism and postmodernism. We see this manifest as a kind of informed naivety, a pragmatic idealism, a moderate fanaticism, oscillating between sincerity and irony, deconstruction and construction, apathy and affect, attempting to atta
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in some sort of transcendent position, as if such a thing were within our grasp. The metamodern generation understands that we can be both ironic and sincere in the same moment; that one does not necessarily diminish the other.
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http://www.metamodernism.com/2015/01/12/metamodernism-a-brief-introduction/