Hey, I’m back. So two historical changes I mentioned in my previous post —are the popularization of Buddhism (in ads, and, also in lay practice), and, historical changes in capitalism/society. Each change conditions the other.
A third shift in the last 40+ years, is that younger generations are working consuming, meaning making in ways that are very different than the OGs of the 1970s. More of our understanding of society comes not from news, for example, but from other sources.. ..snippets of the NYT and Post, not lengthy essays. Time and our attention demand shorter intervals. Writ large… not in every instance, not for everyone. For example, identities have changed even as the very notion/categories of identity are legally and political scrutinized and criticized. Boomer adaptation to meaning making can, sometimes, be a little arcane. Nonetheless meaning making appears in popular culture—we cathect to identities, politics, possibilities through social media.
If the context and milieu in which we make meaning has/is changing, then so what?