Sounds fascinating and apropos of so much of the human experience. Makes me think of Bergson's observation that each individual life is an entire history, an entire evolution reaching back in time, rather than a continuation of the moment just passed. Time, in a way, is an accumulated pressure, a driving force. Meanwhile, culturally speaking, there seems to be a conceptual drift toward what you describe here: a complete lack of understanding narratives and how they impact one's life and the lives of those around us. Living moment to moment, folks are detaching from physical reality, from any sense of the impacts of their actions.
It does strike me how prescient this vision of humanity was, given that it was written in the 1970s. But then again, I find many people writing in the 70s had a better grasp of the risks of technology than people today...
Sounds fascinating and apropos of so much of the human experience. Makes me think of Bergson's observation that each individual life is an entire history, an entire evolution reaching back in time, rather than a continuation of the moment just passed. Time, in a way, is an accumulated pressure, a driving force. Meanwhile, culturally speaking, there seems to be a conceptual drift toward what you describe here: a complete lack of understanding narratives and how they impact one's life and the lives of those around us. Living moment to moment, folks are detaching from physical reality, from any sense of the impacts of their actions.
It does strike me how prescient this vision of humanity was, given that it was written in the 1970s. But then again, I find many people writing in the 70s had a better grasp of the risks of technology than people today...
Thanks for commenting, Asa!
Chris.