pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
And anyway, we're already at the next generation. They're only too happy to comply.
I think this outlook veers very close to an End Of History prognosis. Dissensus has an inexplicable fondness for diagnosing the End of History. People declaring the End Of History have a track record as dismal as that of people forecasting imminent apocalypse.
So we have to wait for a generation that might do something, in a landscape where their very ability to imagine something different, have their own thoughts and dreams and even have an appetite for something different is being eroded by a tailor made, force fed media delivery system aka the internet, which we know is in no hurry to slow down. And in many ways is only just getting started. Idk man. Hard to see it happening anytime soon.
I disagree. It's a position that could lead to talk about what could be done. It's a time to take action. Sitting and waiting is like blind faith.
As I say this is an end of history position. Always a losing bet.
Apparently Fukuyama was wrong about liberal democracy being the end of history because of Trump etc, but we've seen right wing authoritarians before. Surely it's a step back rather than something new?
Apparently Fukuyama was wrong about liberal democracy being the end of history because of Trump etc, but we've seen right wing authoritarians before. Surely it's a step back rather than something new?
Pynchon's conception of history is the most convincing I've come across, the huge, shape-shifting tangle of lines. It seems insane to think of it as this linear thing which goes from point a) to b) to c).
It doesn't really help with understanding changing attitudes, modes of living/production and migration patterns though.
Why not?
I think this outlook veers very close to an End Of History prognosis. Dissensus has an inexplicable fondness for diagnosing the End of History. People declaring the End Of History have a track record as dismal as that of people forecasting imminent apocalypse.
earthquake history is my prefered way of looking at things. fairly stable periods that then violently shake an explode and then reconstitute everything around them, for positive or negative, often both.
I'm not convinced it's ever really stable anymore, I guess stability is relative though. We've obviously been somewhat stable in the West for a while in comparison to what came before.