Week 6 - Wednesday

I liked what Gidden had to say about calling this time peroid Late Modernity instead of post-modernity. That seems to make more sense to me. It seems that the people of the 1980's and 1990's, in their anticipation of the millenium, thought everything of the 20th century was going to be left behind. And so there was much talk about post structualism, post propositionalism, post absolutism, post traditional, post analog, post everything. According to predictions made just after WWII, weren't we supposed to have flying cars by now, a cure for cancer and ray guns? The utopian dream of a completely new reality with a new set of rules for thinking and being, has not yet materialized. Here we are, eight years into the first decade of the 21st century and I still drive a dirty car with an internal combustion engine and my hair is still falling out. Communism still exists, people are still killing each other over religion and 3 point sermons are still popular. Perhaps big change is something that takes longer than we think and tends to happen when nobody is looking? Perhaps we are not as "post" as some thought we would be by now.