Cultural Deja Vu with Kurt Andersen
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2012-01-26/cultural-deja-vu-kurt-andersen
Think for a minute about the clothes you wore, car you drove, and music you listened to 10 or even 20 years ago. Were they radically different from what you donned, drove or rocked out to today? Odds are that you're experiencing a kind of "cultural deja vu" -- and writer and Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen is concerned. Kojo talks with Anderson about whether pop culture is stuck on repeat.
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Kurt Andersen
host and co-creator, Studio 360; author,'Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America' (Random House Publishing Group, 2009); journalist
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With limited disposable income, I have diverted my spending from new clothes or new furnishings to new electronics.
Suzanne
Silver Spring
Perhaps the rapid change of the 20th Century was the exception, and the current state of gradual evolution is more the norm. After all, in the last century we had fundamental changes in technology (the invention of recorded sound, for example), plus two world wars that generated enormous upheavals in society and culture.
This is the new enlightenment, one analog being the shift in the I. Thou relationship engendered by galilean/Copernican revelations that the Earth was not in fact the center of the universe. The level of information available to an increasing number of people allows for collective existential reflection on our place in the big picture. It is inchoate and messy, because ALL the information is not available to ALL people.
However, the extraction and reapplication of old ideas--be they fashion, art, or even political and economic, witness the previous hour's discussion on Keynes and Hayek--, will lead to improvements in these ideas. Probably not quickly enough, however. The only certainty is that change is the only constant, and resistance to that idea is rooted in ignorance.
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