12-02-2019, 05:05 AM
(12-02-2019, 02:55 AM)taramarie Wrote: The societal mood definitely when I was there was not one of optimism and euphoria. It was tension and anger.
Firstly, I will start off at saying that, the approach I take when analyzing where a society broadly is on the saeculum, is analogous to looking at a forest, rather than individual trees.
Anyway, I remember as a little child a society which was in an Awakening, which was Australia in the late 1980s. The mood was paradoxical, in some ways it was euphoric, in other ways it was passionate, splintering and there was a lot of conflicts.
Therefore, I argue that societies in Awakenings feel they are unsatisfied in their ‘Inner Worlds’ as opposed to their 'Outer worlds' and they only become satisfied in their ‘Inner Worlds’ when the Awakening ends. In ‘inner worlds’ I would describe as more the culture than the institutions as such and vice versus.
When it comes to both South Africa and Uganda, their societies to me are those not satisfied with their "Inner Worlds". While both New Zealander and Australian societies aren't satisfied with their 'Outer Worlds'. Indeed, the South African “Born Free” Generation is attempting trying to fix the 'Inner World' of their society, which among many things is the cultural legacy of colonialism. That is why some of this generation have rallied against statues of prominent figures of the colonization of South Africa such as Cecil Rhodes, which was exampled in the hashtag #Rhodesmustfall.
This is that is something that the “Generation of 1976” never rallied against, rather they rallied against the legal system of Apartheid, not the cultural symbols of Apartheid such as statues celebrating figures such as Cecil Rhodes. Indeed, what has happened in South Africa in this decade, is informing me of what will happen in Australia in the 2050s during our next Awakening.
I argue that the decolonization movement being launched, by some of which I argue are some members of Sub-Saharan African Prophet generation, are influencing some of the Civic generations in Australia. However, many of our Civic generation just aren’t much interested in the ‘decolonization’ movement. Instead, they are focusing on what they see as the ‘Climate Emergency’. This reflects, in my opinion, the different focuses that Prophet and Civic generations have, in their 'rebellions', that I argue that every generation does in their own particular way.