Fast-moving cultures depend on stable cultural anchors to absorb innovation

Evidence

Lübbe presents this argument from a culture-theoretical perspective when he places the stability and preservation (Bestandsgarantie) of some cultural fixed points among the presuppositions of successful cultural reproduction, in particular under the conditions of flexible and accelerated social change: “Highly dynamic cultural development presupposes a high constancy in the validity of some cultural elements. Dynamic cultures put themselves at risk from the rapid obsolescence of tradition that complements their dynamism, and in order to cope with this, declining traditional resources, whose validity demonstrates constancy, become all the more important. In other words, there seem to be limits, from both an individual and an institutional perspective, to the capacity to process innovation.” — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 288

Categorization

• SEED: The paradox that rapid change requires fixed background cultural points could underpin an essay on what traditions innovation actually presupposes.
• QUESTION: Which specific cultural elements serve as the constancy anchor for modern dynamic cultures, and how are they chosen or contested?
• XREF: connects to: Structural stability, not risk-taking markets, generates cultural innovation. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 159; Constant churn without ordered sequential change constitutes cultural stasis — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 18; Cultural stasis is constant novelty without ordered sequential change — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 18 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Rapid trend turnover prevents cultural movements from cohering #complicates (0.82) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 18
• Constant churn without ordered sequential change constitutes cultural stasis #complicates (0.75) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 18
• Cultural stasis is constant novelty without ordered sequential change #complicates (0.75) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 18