The old formalism dies because it does not change, because it does not see a reason to change. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.“ Instead, it becomes brittle, reactionary and vulnerable to collapse.
Our pastoral forebears proclaimed that there was a season for everything. But then the electric light banished the night, the train and the auto banished distance, the plane and the radio banished time, and now, month by month, it becomes more clear that our accelerating technological advance is on the verge of obviating classical social evolution.
Historians will describe forces opposing the new techno-reality as resurgent Luddism.
The old formalism dies because it does not change, because it does not see a reason to change. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.“ Instead, it becomes brittle, reactionary and vulnerable to collapse.
Our pastoral forebears proclaimed that there was a season for everything. But then the electric light banished the night, the train and the auto banished distance, the plane and the radio banished time, and now, month by month, it becomes more clear that our accelerating technological advance is on the verge of obviating classical social evolution.
Historians will describe forces opposing the new techno-reality as resurgent Luddism.
I hope whatever answer we find will lead to positive change, but that is far from guaranteed.