Very interesting, Ray.
In fact, my reading of the history of religious revivals and awakenings in
North America has taught me that it is precisely children abandoning the
parents fallen gods that is one of the essences of these events.
Adolescents are the primary leaders and followers of the new sects. Henry
Alline, the leader of the New Lights in Nova Scotia in the late 18th
century was only 17 years old when he began to preach and most of his
acolytes were teenage girls. The same was true of the Ranters and so on
during the English Awakening of the mid 17th century - they were teenage
apprentices and their molls, and the Beat generation of the 1960s etc etc.
Mike
>The Aztecs with the largest market in the world at the time, solved the
>problem by making the Cacoa Bean (a food) the unit of value. Can you
>imagine Rukeyser abandoning commodoties if they are the unit of
>money? Then there is the issue of work as a part of the ethos of the
>culture. America's current work "ethic" is Calvinist Christian. But
>do you ban it? Or do you grow them out of it? And if you choose the
>latter then how do you deal with the issue of respect towards one's
>parents and their choices. As we know, those children who have chosen
>to abandon their parents traditions have alway made the world better,
>right?
>(just kidding) Damn complexity!
>
>REH
>
>
>Eva Durant wrote:
>
>> It is obvious, that people's life
>> should not depend on the ambiguous ways
>> work is defined and measured.
>> Work is a social collaborative activity,
>> so the products should be socially shared.
>> Simple really...
>>
>> Eva
