• Alphane Moon@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    This is a bit of cliche, but still relevant to our current times:

    The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.

    Antonio Gramsci (Italian Marxist philospher from the turn of the century)

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        5 months ago

        I think there are times when it is more relevant, e.g. initial change from a feudal/agrarian model to industrialization. By all accounts this was perhaps the biggest, most impactful change in human history.

        One could argue that we are now witnessing a similar transition with respect to the information age.

        At any rate, this was a somewhat glib statement on my part. :)

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          5 months ago

          that was a particularly large one, but lots of people old enough at any given time will feel the world is changing and that it’s somehow dangerous.

          I agree, some of the time the changes are much larger than others, but there will always at any given time be people that feel this is true about their particular time.