When I first read the original post, I thought of how in culture there seems (to me) to be a drop off of passion somewhere in the 1970s, and that postmodernism kind of goes with that. Passion about something that happens is more powerful if it really is—if things no longer seem to be as firmly to us, there is less passion. From a naive outsider point of view, it looks like Buddhism softens is as well, so the hypothesis that celebration follows being could be tested by seeing if Buddhist countries have as intense of celebrations about progress, or anything in general.
But then I see in the comments people talking about how there were celebrations and excitement in America in the last 50 years—maybe not as big, but still significant. Maybe postmodernism doesn’t affect sports fans as much, or minorities who see their first president, or space fans?
When I first read the original post, I thought of how in culture there seems (to me) to be a drop off of passion somewhere in the 1970s, and that postmodernism kind of goes with that. Passion about something that happens is more powerful if it really is—if things no longer seem to be as firmly to us, there is less passion. From a naive outsider point of view, it looks like Buddhism softens is as well, so the hypothesis that celebration follows being could be tested by seeing if Buddhist countries have as intense of celebrations about progress, or anything in general.
But then I see in the comments people talking about how there were celebrations and excitement in America in the last 50 years—maybe not as big, but still significant. Maybe postmodernism doesn’t affect sports fans as much, or minorities who see their first president, or space fans?