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The Forum of Interesting Things / Re: Culture is (not) your friend
« on: March 24, 2014, 08:01:34 pm »
You say that this collapse or transformation could happen any time, but what do you really think it would look like?
Is it going to be economic collapse that fuels social upheaval, or is it going to be a slow death, a simple fading of western culture into obscurity and a different kind of globalized culture coming to the fore. I'd probably hedge my bets on the latter, but by no means would I exclude the former as a possibility.
Also, what are the consequences of either type of collapse? You say they're dramatic, but I really don't know.
I don't even think there will be any kind of big collapse or revolutionary change in culture, though. I think it seems more probable that as any culture becomes increasingly promotional of individual gain and pleasure, and the more globalized or multicultural any culture becomes, the more the very notion of culture dies. I guess it's all shades of semantic apocalypse to me.
Maybe we'll all just end up like Canada.
Is it going to be economic collapse that fuels social upheaval, or is it going to be a slow death, a simple fading of western culture into obscurity and a different kind of globalized culture coming to the fore. I'd probably hedge my bets on the latter, but by no means would I exclude the former as a possibility.
Also, what are the consequences of either type of collapse? You say they're dramatic, but I really don't know.
I don't even think there will be any kind of big collapse or revolutionary change in culture, though. I think it seems more probable that as any culture becomes increasingly promotional of individual gain and pleasure, and the more globalized or multicultural any culture becomes, the more the very notion of culture dies. I guess it's all shades of semantic apocalypse to me.
Maybe we'll all just end up like Canada.