As time marches forward a lot has
changed. Whether we look at advances in technology and medicine or cultural
shifts like women’s rights we see change everywhere. However it is good to
remember where we came from so that we do not repeat the mistakes of the past.
Let’s take for example a comparison that many might consider a clear contrast,
today versus the Middle Ages, also known as the Dark Ages.
Medicine and technology aside,
how really different are we? How have we really changed? With the fall of the
Roman Empire, the breakdown of communication and the rise of fiefdoms with
their stone walls to keep out marauding pillagers how do we begin to relate? It
doesn’t take much to see that even in this age of social media platforms we
witness daily the breakdown of real face to face communication. We now have
created new fiefdoms of “lefts”, “rights” and “forwards” hunkered down behind
their ever rising ideological walls built as much to defend their ideas as to
keep those within from ever seeing the light of a new perspective.
No comments:
Post a Comment