Cultural Seams

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The point of this dittie is that current theory explains well known human behavior over a wide age range. We presume that Kabir was 'programmed' by his early life circumstances to question 'authority' in some fundamental way, thus fitting into the current model. Kabir was obviously a crass heretic right from the beginning.

This brings us to wonder about the state of modern culture wherein literally millions of children are brought up in the manner suggested by modern scientific knowlege.

Is that good?

Pat Robertson would not think so. Pat would have your children living simultaneously in the modern world and in the ancient world of the Very Old and Odius Testament. Pat would have your children creating 'compartments' in their neural structures which would accomodate both the old and the new. Your children can do that. You have done that. It is a natural process which allows for the seamless continuity of culture.

Problem is that the current rate of change in cultural knowlege presents a challenge to those folks who represent the past, and who are inevitably the older segment of the culture. Modern scientific progress has begun to tax the ancient evolutionary mechanisms which allow for seamless cultural progress. The seams are showing now, in this modern age, and the seams stand out most as differences in age-groups. We are divided nowadays almost as much by age as by geography.