Pre-modern life was itself fraught with anxiety and risk
Evidence
To specify these various contexts of trust in pre-modern cultures is not to say that traditional settings were comforting and psychologically snug, while modern ones are not. There are some definite respects in which levels of ontological insecurity are higher in the modern world than in most circumstances of pre-modern social life, for reasons I shall try to identify. Yet the settings of traditional cultures were in a generic way fraught with anxieties and uncertainties. I refer to these, taken together, as the environment of risk characteristic of the pre-modern world. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 254
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: Giddens says he will identify reasons modernity raises ontological insecurity higher than pre-modern settings — which reasons specifically map onto Stevens’s predicament?
- XREF: connects to: The constant rush through life leads to anxiety and dissatisfaction. — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 279; Rapid fashion change signals nervous exhaustion in an era — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 722; The early modern concept of risk replaced fortuna as a general feature of life — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1350
Related
- The early modern concept of risk replaced fortuna as a general feature of life (similarity 0.80)
- Fate returns as a psychological support in secular modern risk environments (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- The constant rush through life leads to anxiety and dissatisfaction.
#corroborates(0.40) — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 279 - Rapid fashion change signals nervous exhaustion in an era
#exemplifies(0.30) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 722