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Why do we find ourselves being the first era without heirs? Among the reasons, is there also the fear of the legacy itself - human, cultural, historical, value-based... - and of the weight that it entails?
Because in our era individualism and the cult of the present triumph. Contemporaries have freed themselves from the burden of inheritance, they feel self-created and assign less and less importance to historical memory, to the lessons of the masters and to tradition.
What matters is the present moment, today's trends, the things that are most needed in the immediate future. And this kills any fruitful and lasting relationship with previous generations and their legacy.
In her opinion, isn't the fact of not recognizing the inheritance received ultimately the "evil" of every era? Why this one in particular?
Many eras of the past have contested the fathers, the masters, but without erasing them. And they were still projected into the future, they believed they were leaving a legacy to future generations. This is the first era that does not recognize legacy and does not leave legacy, it frees itself from both the past and the future. To this egocentric and presentist, narcissistic and utilitarian tendency, is added the ideological framework of cancel culture and woke delirium, which eliminates everything that is not in conformity with today or is considered inappropriate, politically incorrect.
In this speech, what relationship does contemporary man have with time, between social media, Artificial Intelligence and Memory?
Freeing themselves from memory, contemporaries elect Artificial Intelligence as the universal heir of all knowledge, collected in an immense data warehouse; but it is information, not knowledge, an assembly of data, not culture; it is as if the heritage of culture were freeze-dried and piled up in a gigantic cloud, the cloud. The obsession of enjoying everything in the moment, and the growing acceleration of technology worsens the situation, in a kind of fast food of culture, everything is consumed quickly.
First women had to be convinced that having and raising children with a partner was some kind of trap, to be avoided. This idea was well implanted in me by middle school. Most of the 'unspoken idea' of the professional woman with no kids came from my own Mom, who was perenially unsatisfied with my Father, because he was not as business driven as she was. Though they are both gone, I feel sad for my Dad, who was essentially a very intelligent and decent man who would have rather been a farmer than an architect. An overiding theme of 'unecessary educations' meant to dehumanize and with some remote goal of escaping the human condition.
This is not the first era. This was inherited from the previous generation, not the one prior to that, and embraced in full by the one that followed. So he we are in the next era, and those of it know nothing of the generation "prior to that." And the obsession now is not with enjoying everything in the moment, it's with experiencing everything in the moment. The value is in the experience alone, not in the how it was experienced. Enjoyment is gone.