Alexander was wrong...

Legend and history have it that Alexander [maybe the not so great] solved the puzzle of the Gordian knot by severing it with his sword. That act represents some of the worst kind of thinking for humanity and represents the flawed legacy of the Enlightenment and Modernity.
Yet the great epochs of western and northern European civilization are demarcated by the Medieval Period, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. We began to strip away the body from thought and to seek objective truth to pursue the idea that we must find the 'simple solution".

The insistence on clear and dispassionate logic informing an objective pursuit of truth as triumphant over over messy emotions and the flawed human body that had to be suppressed so as to not distract the positivist search for an objective reality is the bastard child of the Enlightenment delivered through gestation by Modernity.

In the middle to late twentieth century the emergent Post Modernists began to critically examine their illegitimate birth. Derrida led the savage horde of Deconstructionists who destabilized all critical and philosophic thought in the western world. They came to bring disorder by exposing the great fallacies of Modern Thought; they destroyed them by exposing the tissue of lies that fabricated and sustained Modernity. They excised the false consciousness of the recent past and opened a space for complexity.

And now we can open our minds to the beauty of our complex existence and to know that we can only find understanding by seeing the all of existence. That we are not mere individuals trapped within a singular, individual existence. We are part of a social fabric connected in ways we may never comprehend. It becomes possible for the reunion of science and philosophy with the arts. The fractured can be healed and we can move to the next paradigm of human existence.