Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-26-2020, 10:21 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: Well, maybe I'm stubborn, but this isn't a political or ideological issue.  To the contrary, I've examined thousands of generational events going back thousands of years, and I haven't noticed any differences in the way that generational eras change in different ages.

I would go with stubborn.

Look at the fourth column in the properties of cultures of the era, the form of government.  It goes from tribal chiefs, to a semi hereditary warrior / landowning class, to elected officials.  If  I’m guessing right, in the Information Age we will eventually when we solve the security problem go to direct vote network democracy so the representatives stop identifying with the elites.

Or in conflict, there was a point when you switched from swords to muskets.  Instead of banning peasants owning weapons, you got a right to bear arms.

Or information.  In the Agricultural Age, the library at Alexandria was a big deal.  With the invention of the printing press, every major university had a library to match it.  Today, most people carry a cell phone.

Or the steam engine.  Could the Roman Empire have competed with the factory system of the British Empire, or would it be hopelessly outclassed.

It is possible to be interested only in things that have not been reshaped by the changing technology.  You make a prime exhibit for the case.  You really ought to explore how technology shapes cultures.  You focus heavily on how wars started and governments interacted in the Industrial Age, to the extent of excluding everything else.  You remain profoundly and willfully ignorant of certain things.

Some of us don’t so limit ourselves.