The innovationists privilege “disruption,” while the generationists privilege “continuity” or at least worrying about too much discontinuity. The innovationists are all about maximizing individual choice and control and so pushing back nature and chance.They’re open to the thought that the world to come might not need replacements (children) because individuals won’t need to be replaced. The generationists are more about living according to nature. Their thought is conditioned by the insight tha we are the beings born to love and die. The innovationists think that it’s our constant task to overcome so-called “natural limitations,” and their imaginations are filled not by the fear of subhumanity but the techno-hope for transhumanity. The generationists distinguish between natural and sinful man and God. The innovationists sometimes really do believe that that we can escape birth and death and so parenthood and childhood and become like the gods. The generationists wonder whether we can really be happy too detached from social institutions, from, to begin with, being parents and children. An innovative generationist or a generational innovator would be animated by a view of personal, relational freedom that seems between hard and impossible to find these days.
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 18:31:51 +0000
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