Quote (thesnipa @ Jan 25 2021 03:28pm)
Watching how quickly the lexicon of cool phrases comes and goes with young kids i can say i truly believe it moves so fast it hampers communication. not intragenerational, but intergenerationally. its simply too fast. there is a point of diminishing return with culture speed, and i think we're closer than u might think we are.
I think that the rate of change will remain pretty much steady from now on. We've basically reached the cap to how fast communication can get, and so the rate of culture change will cap as well. I just think our next generation will be better adapted to it, so they will see culture change as normal rather than the previous understanding that it's largely static. So these disagreements about "words don't change!" will largely be a thing of the past.
and who knows? Maybe it quickly reaches a stable equilibrium where 99% of cultural features don't change but when some change is needed it happens incredibly fast. So instead of seeing things like gay or trans issues last 2 decades it's basically settled in a year.
I dunno. Just spitballing. Human psychology is also just inherently resistant so it's possible none of this happens and we keep seeing things in largely the same way. Physical separation may prove to be the limiting factor to true cultural change, and since you can't really get faster than the jets we have now there's not much reason for that to stop being an impediment.
This post was edited by Thor123422 on Jan 25 2021 03:36pm