This line made me laugh - "Cultural movements grow up like human generations, each one rebelling against its parent, correcting it, fulfilling it, and going astray in new ways." I like the image of each generation (not exactly the same as a cultural movement but I think new generations often feel that way to the people in them) being more or less a petulant teenager.
We went through a lengthy Sunday school at our church on heresy and started out talking about why history matters and why we don't take it more seriously. We talked about the idea that folks tend to be disconnected with their past because we have the idea that we're better off than the bad old days, even if we wouldn't phrase it like that. Our discussions tended to be better during the study when we remembered to be charitable to our neighbors in history.
I'm wondering if the acceleration that's happened with technology in the last century or so has widened this gap more than previous generations would have seen, but that may have more to do with the disconnectedness you were talking about in the last post.
Well, the rate of technological change AND adoption has certainly increased exponentially, and technology is a major driving force behind cultural change (but certainly not the only). Ray Kurzweil is interesting (if a little far out) on the topic of exponential technological change.
This line made me laugh - "Cultural movements grow up like human generations, each one rebelling against its parent, correcting it, fulfilling it, and going astray in new ways." I like the image of each generation (not exactly the same as a cultural movement but I think new generations often feel that way to the people in them) being more or less a petulant teenager.
We went through a lengthy Sunday school at our church on heresy and started out talking about why history matters and why we don't take it more seriously. We talked about the idea that folks tend to be disconnected with their past because we have the idea that we're better off than the bad old days, even if we wouldn't phrase it like that. Our discussions tended to be better during the study when we remembered to be charitable to our neighbors in history.
I'm wondering if the acceleration that's happened with technology in the last century or so has widened this gap more than previous generations would have seen, but that may have more to do with the disconnectedness you were talking about in the last post.
Well, the rate of technological change AND adoption has certainly increased exponentially, and technology is a major driving force behind cultural change (but certainly not the only). Ray Kurzweil is interesting (if a little far out) on the topic of exponential technological change.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ray_kurzweil_the_accelerating_power_of_technology?language=en