Do culture revolutions go through cycles?

[Elta]

Granted countrys do affect each other in the sense of changing things; technology and the way we communicate also changes the conditions. I just wanted to mention those thinge first off.

Do culture revolutions go through cycles?

 

[skadistic]

Define culture revolution please. Do you mean things like fads. Bellbottems made a come back but not realy cycling.

 

[Elta]

Define culture revolution please. Do you mean things like fads. Bellbottems made a come back but not realy cycling.

Anything and every thting really ...yes bell bottoms, yes people trying to bring up the topic of a flat tax, fighting the man, being yuppies and wanting to be "the man", ...the defenition of "the man" all that stuff. Do we go through cycles?

 

[Homie]

If you mean the left-right wing swing I totally agree. Regions/countries of the world go through these periods where people are left-wing, and then as a counter to that people (later generations) become right-wing, and then as a counter to that people become left-wing again, and so on....

Currently we are in a left-wing phase in the Western World as a result of the right-wing phase of the 2nd WW. But this is just in the Western World, in large parts of the rest of the world are in a right-wing phase.

 

[skadistic]

The "whats old is new again" thing. I can't say it cycles but cultural revoulutions are seldom revolutionary. Take automotive design "retro styles" aren't realy in a cycle ( more like lazy unimaginative design). I like Homie's political swing thing. I do think things get cool again but not in cycles per say.

I'm waiting for shag carpet, neon biker shorts and dirty hippies ti make a come back, preferably all at once.

 

[EdCase]

So long as its not dirty hippies IN neon biker shorts *shudder*

 

[Shaihulud]

Looking at history, i have to say no. Occasionally religions, fashions and philosopies may encounter a revival, but on a whole it is too different from the original one, or repackage differently for me to call it a true reproduction. History is too filled with random events other than human actions to cyclical.