There is the progressive worldview – that human nature is evolving and civilization is destined to perfect itself – and the conservative worldview – that human nature is relatively fixed and history is cyclical – and I confess, I fluctuate between them. But I dreamed of a third worldview last night, and now I can’t stop thinking about it.
What if societies and civilizations and maybe even history itself are like any LIVING organism? Imagine that every culture starts out as a grasping, needy infant… suffers growing pains through “childhood” and “adolescence”… eventually reaches a robust, long-lasting “adulthood” – healthy, productive, thriving – then, at some point, begins growing old… losing “muscle tone,” deteriorating, falling apart… and eventually dying. What if that’s just the natural order of things – like, a natural law – and there’s nothing we can do about it? In which case, all our fighting and fuming is for naught? What if America is dying of natural causes, and the best we can hope for is palliative care? What if the same can be said for humanity?
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I’m sure this idea is nothing new, but I discussed it at length in some mysterious bar with some mysterious man in a dream last night, and it was very compelling. In the light of day, it’s a bit less so, and it seems a little sad that I’m having conversations like this EVEN IN MY DREAMS. I blame Facebook.
August 17, 2018 at 4:57 pm
Margaret, great thoughts and great article.
I think the third worldview you dreamed about it is interesting. It bears no resemblance to the Progressive worldview but is similar to the Conservative (or I’d just call it the “Traditional”) view of the world as being imperfectable, static and unchanging in essentials, and somewhat cyclical. Your third worldview isn’t quite cyclical – because the cycle seems to only happen once – but it is symmetrical; it has a rise and fall like a bell curve. And it seems to be imperfectable and static. So I think it’s actually not too dissimilar from the Traditional worldview.
Very thought provoking!