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Meme lemming
Sep. 27th, 2003 11:38 am( Read more... )
Sep. 27th, 2003
Here's a link to an article that's part of this week's class assignment for my Library science program.
http://www.lita.org/Content/NavigationMenu/LITA/LITA_Publications4/ITAL__Information_Technology_and_Libraries/2001_Gorman.htm
This passage from it jumped out at me in thinking about what I do as a re-enactor, because that is what I think of my historical clothing endevors. Its an intersting frame of mind to wrap your brain around, the author is talking about 1890-1901, but it could just as easily apply to the 1500's with the massive changes that happened in that century.
"We live in the single, shining moment of "now," but our lives are overwhelmingly made up of the past. We must understand that past and learn from it, if we are to understand ourselves, our society, and, in doing so, make progress. The key to understanding the past is the knowledge that people then did not live in the past-they lived in the present, just a different present from ours. The present we are living in will be the past sooner than we wish. What we perceive as its uniqueness will come to be seen as just a part of the past as viewed from the point of a future present that will, in turn, see itself as unique. People in history did not wear quaintly old-fashioned clothes-they wore modern clothes. They did not see themselves as comparing unfavorably with the people of the future, they compared themselves and their lives favorably with the people of their past. In the context of our area of interest, it is particularly interesting to note that people in history did not see themselves as technologically primitive. On the contrary, they saw themselves as they were-at the leading edge of technology in a time of unprecedented change."
These other passage also just jumped out at me, talking about information overload and peoples reactions to it.
( Read more... ).
http://www.lita.org/Content/NavigationMenu/LITA/LITA_Publications4/ITAL__Information_Technology_and_Libraries/2001_Gorman.htm
This passage from it jumped out at me in thinking about what I do as a re-enactor, because that is what I think of my historical clothing endevors. Its an intersting frame of mind to wrap your brain around, the author is talking about 1890-1901, but it could just as easily apply to the 1500's with the massive changes that happened in that century.
"We live in the single, shining moment of "now," but our lives are overwhelmingly made up of the past. We must understand that past and learn from it, if we are to understand ourselves, our society, and, in doing so, make progress. The key to understanding the past is the knowledge that people then did not live in the past-they lived in the present, just a different present from ours. The present we are living in will be the past sooner than we wish. What we perceive as its uniqueness will come to be seen as just a part of the past as viewed from the point of a future present that will, in turn, see itself as unique. People in history did not wear quaintly old-fashioned clothes-they wore modern clothes. They did not see themselves as comparing unfavorably with the people of the future, they compared themselves and their lives favorably with the people of their past. In the context of our area of interest, it is particularly interesting to note that people in history did not see themselves as technologically primitive. On the contrary, they saw themselves as they were-at the leading edge of technology in a time of unprecedented change."
These other passage also just jumped out at me, talking about information overload and peoples reactions to it.
( Read more... ).
