Very true! When I compared our responses, I thought, wait.. there’s no place for a revolt in the 80s.. and THEN I remembered.
It’s true what you said; I think that’s one of the reasons I love doing a socio-historical-fizzimawhatzitical analysis of concepts. Whatever it takes to get a more rounded view. Logic is useful but I can’t see it outside of the perspective of the environments the concepts were born within.
The growth of statistical analysis, for example, showed up EVERYWHERE in the early 10s-20s-30s – a fad, as it were. It was “the new thing”.
Then everything became Quantum this and that.
Now everything is analogized to networks, the Internet, etc.
100 years from now, when there’s something new that comes along, it’s likely that people THEN won’t see the context from within which our ideas from today were born either… unless socio-cultural-historical-etc analysis becomes the norm, which I don’t think it will for a long time. Too much fluff in it even still. But it’s useful.
“Useful”: The sure sign of an American Pragmatist. I am a product of my culture smile emoticon
lol there it is again: “WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET A MORE ROUNDED VIEW”.
Did you see that?
American Pragmatist.
I try to analyze my own justifications for bias and it’s amazing when it just “pops up” like that, as I train myself more and more to see it.