The more I look into history the more I realize that a huge number of supposedly old traditions are actually pretty recent. specifically products from around the 1970s.
Living in a Muslim country this is especially obvious with Islam. Before our societies obviously weren't "secular", but religion was much more rooted in local cultures, regional history and different traditions. A lot of what people now present as Islam(that has always existed) really comes out of the Sahwa movement of the 1970s, when Gulf states poured money into exporting their version of Islam through preachers, universities and televangelists.
But it's not just Islam. American evangelical Christianity's televangelist boom took off around the same era. Modern identity politics many strands of contemporary feminism and various political movements also took the forms we recognize today during the 1970s.
you also forgot modern day neoliberalism! The war on drugs! Terrorism! The iranian revolution!!!
>>2870223I remember there was a site called something like "what happened in the 1970s" that detailed a bunch of negative social trends that started in the early 1970s. I can't find it now tho. You just reminded me of it.
The postwar boom ended.
The gold window closed.
Old mechanisms of crisis management stopped working. Leading to wage suppression, credit expansion, fictitious capital, managed devaluation, foreign trade, and the cheapening of constant capital.
https://damnjehu.substack.com/p/the-terminal-phase-how-the-state>>2870237we got hotpants
>>2870223This is true for all times. The "conservatives" of any age aren't really about "preserving tradition" (which doesn't really exist, since everything is always changing) but about RETVRNING to the youth of their grandfathers.
>>2870237Eradication and homogenization of folk religion is a fairly old trend, that seems to have ramped up following colonialism and continues to intensify even today. I can't help but feel the propagation of this type of legalism also coincides with a decline in religious high-culture, because most sources of tradition appear to have been stripped down in favor of creating more effective ideological weaponry. Ultimately the vatican is as anomalous an institution in the modern religio-political landscape as a siberian shaman.
>>2870271This one?
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/