(September 11, 2011 at 10:13 pm)LunchBox Wrote: I'm not sure how I have come to fit into this thread...mainly because I don't understand it. Fred...you may be "too deep" for me...I don't know. But reading the intro post, and the subsequent followups, I'm having trouble following all this.
Not to worry, LB. As you can see, you are not alone. As confused as everyone seems to be, I'm as confused to as why they are, so I don't know what part is hanging folks up. Regardless, once more can't hurt.
If you look at history, when did the rebellion against the church as sole authority take place? At the beginning of the age of reason. That's the mythic being overtaken by the rational. The particulars aside, the worldview is why it's called the modern age and why the mythic is seen as premodern. It's the development of the rational/scientific lens, if you will, that makes it different. And it took of like a rocket because of it, an acceleration unlike anything ever seen.
Of course, with that much momentum, things can go off course, and they did. So people screamed loud and long, starting with the romantics in the late 18th century on into the postmoderns.
Premodern, modern, postmodern. Three distinct historical periods, three distinct worldviews. But all of them are still here because they are levels of development and become part of the overall package.
We didn't cast off the lizard brain, right? It's like that. Levels are added, not replaced.
And the cool part is that the same sequence of development that took place historically takes place individually. They match up. That's the Piaget/Gebser thing I mentioned. One focused on individual development, the other of societal, but the stages they and those like them studied are the same, macro and micro.
I mentioned you because you just happened to hit all three worldviews in a row and it was synchronous.
Your knowing you couldn't be proven wrong was the mythic lens, the quantifying part was the rational, and the knowing about the limitations of the labels was the relativist.
I thought it was an excellent example of showing how we all use them at different times.
