This has been around for several years:
But it continues to be true. The problems we see today are the result of endless causes. Figuring out which are the key factors to what we've become is a task unto itself. Admitting that something went seriously wrong, on the other hand, is simple.
(Tom New Poster)
ReplyDeleteAn age of highly-conformist behavior is often followed by a nonconformist reaction (Romantics against Enlightenment, 1920s v Victorian-Edwardian), but things usually settle down and drift back toward where they had been. The post-WWII era was highly conformist and so some reaction in the 1960s was inevitable, but somehow there was no pullback (except perhaps a weak and short-lived one in the 1980s), as there seemed in the other cases. I'm open to suggestions as to why.