CULTURAL DIFFERENCES: LINEAR BUT CYCLICAL TIME by Skye Stewart A widely shared b

CULTURAL DIFFERENCES: LINEAR BUT CYCLICAL TIME

by Skye Stewart

A widely shared belief (among the greatest of minds as well as the smallest of minds) is that there are socio-cultural- historical processes contributing toward an developmental pattern/structure from the beginnings of human history into the foreseeable future whereby our commonalities constitute our humanity and our difference merely the favor of our experiences. Western conceptions of linear time, as opposed to cyclical time as in most cultures has made much of this possible I gather. But philosophers and psychologists from Hegel to Pinker have argued its case, in one form or another.

Arguing against it is akin to arguing for the ‘dark ages’.