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Saturday, July 3, 2010

time periods (link)

It is an interesting exercise thinking of time periods. Thinking of time periods I begin to search for physical and mental artifacts that delineate one from another.

For instance one time period could be identified as "before space exploration" and "after space exploration". Once human beings left the thin atmosphere of earth and voyaged ever so slightly into the cosmic ocean the human experience was altered. From the pictures of earth as viewed from space to landing human beings on our satellite the moon mankind's perception of possibilities and place were restructured.

It does not seem that most have had the realization that they are in fact themselves living in a time period. As a result of living in "their" time period they accept certain ideas and actions rarity questioning importance, validity, etc...

Our aspirations are in many instances not truly our own. Yet inherited from the particular time periods that we exist within.

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