Using outmoded thought for present problems makes one a walking anachronism
Evidence
To many of these desperately poor people, it was as if we in the mainstream West were unable to see that often we were the authors of our own misfortunes. They were diagnosing a weird kind of social senility. It was a diagnosis that in many ways resembled Innis’s conclusion that the West, and particularly the United States, was losing its balance and becoming increasingly blinded by its intense present-mindedness. As a result, it was prone to resort to force to solve its problems. — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 24 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Western present-mindedness drives a reliance on force to solve problems — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 24; Theory is a necessary detour into concepts to break through the chaos of appearances; Everyday walking replaces totalizing spatial order with fragmentary, allusive pedestrian rhetoric. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1336
Related
- Western present-mindedness drives a reliance on force to solve problems (similarity 0.83)
- Intense present-mindedness makes advanced societies blind to their self-inflicted misfortunes. (similarity 0.81)
- Everyday walking replaces totalizing spatial order with fragmentary, allusive pedestrian rhetoric. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Theory is a necessary detour into concepts to break through the chaos of appearances
#expands(0.75) - Western present-mindedness drives a reliance on force to solve problems
#expands(0.72) — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 24