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Fauvenoir (not verified)
Determinism applied to social

Determinism applied to social dynamics is a joke. It's been broken apart by at least 100 years of sociology, linguistics and anthropology. Stop clinging to this old Hegelian bad theory. Society's made of *constructs*, and no there's no such thing as innately-generated constructs, unless there's proof of otherwise... whatever people do is based on these constructs, collectively-shared. Jung never inferred to anything genetically-inherited when he talk about archetypes... this is all part of the social imaginary, especially Disney spectacle you've seen as a kid when your parents wanted to lay down for a while, or the stuff you may have read in children's books. Among other things.

But what is happening every 30-40 years? *drums rolling*

Generations!

Because we're living in an intensely ageist society (especially in NA), people gain full access to the "levers" of society from their 30s to 60s, after the brief episode of being douchebags or rebellious left-leaning in their 20s. This means a new wave of *moral entrepreneurs* every 30 years, roughly. Featuring your usual ID politicians, Left and Right. There's nothing determined here; it's patterns that have taken shape over time, and may change eventually given the conditions. Just 80 years ago you were already there at 18 years old, as social entry was much, much easier yet society was also way more conservative and, shall I say, male-centered. The only biological cycle here lies in people keep being born and forming blurry society-wide cohorts, defined by their mutual trajectories across the common stages of social development. These mutual trajectories are the "conveyor belts"... not natural but organic socially-sustained constructs, a.k.a. "social institutions", that produce a new generation. Once you've been through this, there's no going back to the belt. Coz it's unidirectional like our linear, unidirectional (and failed) conception of time. There's no time-travelling in society, yet we have the potential to create on our own radically different situations and trajectories that break up the generational enclosures, just like the other enclosures.

And of course there are "residues", or people that don't fit in these molds properly. Like me, and several other persons visiting this site. It's those people who're in the best position to undermine the enforced determinisms. This is why both psychiatry and human resources management exists, to "correct" them from their abnormality in order to erase or reduce their effect on the institutions (perceived as vital to social order and well-being of the populace), and to keep away those who won't. But within the new institution that is social media, I'm also seeing a GRAVE political threat of people snitching their own abnormalities (or subjectivities at that point, in the form of identity aggregates) to Big Brother, and how this could in the near future connect with the current parallel boom in neuroscience among millenial researchers...

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