"Continuity is the mythology of managerial civilisation. It reassures us that institutions rest upon stable foundations, progress unfolds against a benign planetary background, disruption is local. Catastrophe violates this metaphysics - it suggests that civilisation may be episodic, and the ancient world was not merely superstitious but injured. Modernity is less an awakening than a highly sophisticated amnesia."
- Cultural Sediment
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- "Continuity is the mythology of managerial civilisation. It reassures us that institutions rest upon stable foundations, progress unfolds against a benign planetary background, disruption is local. Catastrophe violates this metaphysics - it suggests that civilisation may be episodic, and the ancient world was not merely superstitious but injured. Modernity is less an awakening than a highly sophisticated amnesia." - Cultural Sediment x.com/nobulart/statu…
Agree. Humans fear serious change and have to deny it will ever happen to be able to function. This is why those of us who see the coming changes are vilified if we attempt to talk about it.
The true continuity is not for the general population. That historians are so obnoxiously in denial is the property of the general population which is behind the decision to remain in the shadows. The average humans are openly hostile to reading history as an account of real# The (not so) lost religions The conquistadors came to the Americas under the auspices of the double-headed eagle, the imperial emblem of the Habsburgs. They met their own mirror reflection, and we read in the Cabildo of Valdivia's letter to Charles V of 20 July 1552: "in most
