Sunday, October 10, 2004

Modernity

I think modernity is a reference to a cultural style, an intellectual climate, a reversion to the past or the sway of a particular monarch. All periods are Modern, but not all of them live their experience in this mode. Indeed, the classical is a way of living one’s current experience as though it were simply a reprise of the past, so that only those bits of it which bear the legitimating seal of Tradition can be regarded as authentic.

The air, water, soil, nature and life of different forms around us-all in their totality-constitute the environment. This environmental alcohol affect the way of thinking, thinking which may be radical or rational and process of development of intellectual echelon of society, society which constitute gamut of thought processing machines. And because of hangover, the inbuilt hungriness of an individual or a community demands for social transform or change, change which is dynamic and full of élan, change which is bounded by some socio-cultural limits. Change (as a still born child) as social cultural conditions which have tangible effects on life of an individual or community in a positive era.
This whole transform is a result of a force. Force which comprises own perception, perception of community or an individual and interpretation of West (West as a synonym of imperialism), perception which inevitably were linked with or rebounded on modes of self understanding and self definition to preserve own identity. Concerned force materializes in form of Modernization, which builds upon newly perceived foundation.

So today you are modern. And one’s instinct is to preserve it. So in that process custom is too handed down it (process of being modernize) to one generation to another in a chronological framework. Custom pronounced as Tradition. So there is a curious disposition of information through contemporary generation to the next one. But this moderate process corrupt with information garbage, reason is lack of evidences.

Having close look traditions are weavers of web of modernity, as if you (tradition) try to do something to the web, after effect will be on you (tradition), not on the web (modernity). For e.g. Modernization generate a new dynamism, dynamism prone to break upon congealed or ossified ‘Tradition’, on the other hand members of indigenous life worlds are prone to defend these same Traditions. So ‘modernization is a gripping, monumental drama with promises and risk.’

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