As we move towards looking at modern post industrial society, we can see many changes that have ultimately led to some form of suffering. The destruction of traditional cultures and the exposure to new technologies and modern culture show us that industry and modern society might bring more economic prosperity, but our happiness and mental health is what is becoming more and more affected and at risk. Some of these include anxiety, other psychological conditions, disconnected relationships, depersonalization. Traditional cultures who had not yet been domesticated lived very different lives than we do today in a post industrialized society. Ethnocide, which is the destruction of a culture was a main contributor to the shift of traditional
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One of the things people are worried about is western style education. In the book Light at the Edge of the World, the author writes, “We send our children to school, and they forget everything. It’s the worst thing that ever happened to our people. They only know how to say ‘give me’. They don’t know how to say ‘I give to you’”, (156). This also shows how reciprocity has changed and people now are less willing to give to others without feeling that they need to be given something in return. Another fear is that in the future, we are going to become less and less diverse. In chapter 7 of Light at the Edge of the World, the author writes that the late Margaret Mead, who was an anthropologist was concerned that, “we are laying the foundations of a blandly amorphous and singularly generic modern culture that ultimately will have no rivals…. we might wake up one day and not even remember what had been lost,” (198-199). So as we moved from traditional cultures into a post industrial society, we lost some values and practices that were very important for
One of the things people are worried about is western style education. In the book Light at the Edge of the World, the author writes, “We send our children to school, and they forget everything. It’s the worst thing that ever happened to our people. They only know how to say ‘give me’. They don’t know how to say ‘I give to you’”, (156). This also shows how reciprocity has changed and people now are less willing to give to others without feeling that they need to be given something in return. Another fear is that in the future, we are going to become less and less diverse. In chapter 7 of Light at the Edge of the World, the author writes that the late Margaret Mead, who was an anthropologist was concerned that, “we are laying the foundations of a blandly amorphous and singularly generic modern culture that ultimately will have no rivals…. we might wake up one day and not even remember what had been lost,” (198-199). So as we moved from traditional cultures into a post industrial society, we lost some values and practices that were very important for