Modules assignment Critical thinking

WORLDVIEWS

Imagine putting on yellow sunglasses, yellow enough to make EVERYTHING look yellow: cars, houses,

trees, family members, friends.... EVERYTHING.

A Worldview is similar.

Romanticism:

If you LOVE new life, enjoy nature and Spring flowers, the season for new growth and even new HOPE; if

you tend to see the world optimistically, almost CHILD-LIKE, then you would be called a "Romantic." In

Western Literature, the English poets toward the end of the 1700s and first half of the 1800s were called

ROMANITC. They championed ROMANTICISM. Romantics

love nature

embrace a child-like innocence

strive to achieve the innocence of the Garden (before the fall of Man)

pursue fresh optimism and the promise of new life, new ideas

INDIVIDUALISM (celebrating the SELF as unique and able to express individual values and beliefs

GOD is in all things, especially in nature

Think about the HIPPIES of the 1960s in America, Free Love, PEACE, anti-establishment attitudes

The time period for this time in Western History is roughly 1793 (with the poetry of William Blake)

through 1856. Some argue that Romanticism actually lasted only until 1837 with the arrival of Queen

Victoria.

VICTORIANISM

With the arrival of Queen Elizabeth in 1837, the VICTORIAN era quickly spread. It was a time for people

to embrace

social rules of conduct

STATUS (seeking a "title" like "Bank Manager" (as opposed to PT teller)

DUTY (duty is far more important than seeking individualism (doing your own thing)

Return to GOD as eternal and powerful and "in complete control"

DEISM: God makes no mistakes: if you were born male or female, black or white, that is what GOD

decided for you

Christian fundamentalism (universal acceptance of the Bible as the Word of God)

Judgmental (class distinctions: upper crust, middle class, lower class, poor)

lots of decoration, embellishment, fancy clothes,

PROPER etiquette

MODERNISM (see my lecture before " Clean, Well-Lighted Place")

Queen Victoria died in 1901. Some argue "Modernism" started at that time in history. But I believe

Modernism was a little like RUST on an iron pipe: It eats away at the pipe until, at last, it fails.

Victorianism was still popular after 1901, but the gloom and uncertainty of Modernism became a RUST

on Victorianism as early as 1850 and certainly by 1880.

Marxism (The Communist Manifesto came out in 1848). It attacked Capitalism and Private Ownership

Darwinism (Survival of the Fittest as an idea from EVOLUTION) Origin of the Species, 1959

Darwinism (The Ascent of Man -- Man EVOLVED from Apes) 1871

Atheism (The Death of God; Man created God, not the other way around):

Nietzsche's The Anti-Christ (1888), The Genealogy of Morality (1887), Beyond Good and Evil (1886), Thus

Spake Zarathustra (1892)

Sigmund Freud (The Id in 1899) and other words going into the early 1900s)

All of these IDEAS deconstructed God and Christianity, deconstructed Capitalism and Private Ownership.

The Bible is no longer the Word of God! It cannot be the Word of God because we now KNOW the earth

is much older than 6000 years. And so on....

Furthermore, with the Death of God and the deconstruction of Christianity and a basic belief in a

CREATOR, human beings now had to start believing in themselves. That was a DEPRESSING proposition

in the early 1900s and certainly by 1914 with the start of World War I.

WWI (1914-1918)

The Great Depression (1929-1937)

Fascism in Europe (Hitler/Nazism 1925-1945; Mussolini in Italy)

The Holocaust (6 million Jews massacred 1939-1945)

WWII in Europe (1939-1945)

WWII against Japan (1941-1945)

Nuclear Weapons (Atomic: 1945; Hydrogen: 1952)

EXISTENTIAL ANGST

Depression

Hopelessness

Meaninglessness

POST-MODERNISM

At some point after the middle of the 20th Century, people began to believe that HUMANS can fix

things. We do not need God! We have Science, Medicine, Technology, Brain Power, Innovation....

I think the world began to change with a NEW OPTIMISM with the election and swearing in of John F.

Kennedy in 1961. But then on Nov 22, 1963, JFK was assassinated. His death CHANGED THE WORLD.

I therefore select 1963 as the END of Modernism and the beginning of POST-Modernism.

Improving the World through Politics

The United Nations taking root in the World (1948-2020)

GLOBALISM: International Agreements between Nations

Environmentalism on a GLOBAL scale

Improving Race Relations

The Civil Rights Act (1964)

Eliminating Segregation (Brown v Board of Education, 1952-1956)

Integrating Public Schools and Colleges/Universities (1956-1968)

Affirmative Action (Preferential Treatment for minority groups, including women)

In unions for hiring (quotas)

in college Admissions (quotas)

in housing (housing sales, rentals)

Feminism (Women's Rights)

Sexual Revolution and Gay Rights

TECHNOLOGY (the World Wide Web 1990)

Internet technology

Computers/Laptops

Cell Phones

Smart Phones

MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS

Vaccines for polio (1955) and other diseases

MRIs (1986)

Charting the Brain (1995)

Defeating AIDS with Treatments (1995)

Improving Treatment for Cancers

Surgery on Babies in the Womb

I hope you find the attachment helpful. This information is useful for the Modules Test

Blessings,

Mr. Edd