Generations - value creation... (continued...)
Living in a world which information flows so rapidly and massively it must have dawned upon you that you might just be more informed about anything in the world right now than anyone who was born 4 decades before you- probably your parents. But there is a fundamental paradox between you thinking that way and whoever who is older than you thinking that they are the ones who know more. This can be summarized in one sentence: The "universal law of" i was here first. Now if you're a parent reading this do not get offended, i'm trying as hard as i can to be objective about this.
Let's put things into perspective first, we are not talking about who knows more, and we are not talking about who should be in position and we are definitely not talking about naive thinking of a teenager who hasn't seen the world. What we are going to talk about is the idea of generational power. Generational power in some sense is the kind of power you get when you are older or you've "been there first". Everyone of us would eventually come to own it, unless you really lock ourself out of the world.
On one hand one might say that this does not confirm the person's credibility or expertise about the proposed knowledge and on the other hand one might say that since he/she was here before i was he might have some knowledge of what is going on/happen. This is important because knowledge IS power. What i'm trying to ask is... is this kind of power good? In what way? and can it be bad? In what ways do we conform to this and in which places do we not?
What do you think?
(to be concluded....)
Living in a world which information flows so rapidly and massively it must have dawned upon you that you might just be more informed about anything in the world right now than anyone who was born 4 decades before you- probably your parents. But there is a fundamental paradox between you thinking that way and whoever who is older than you thinking that they are the ones who know more. This can be summarized in one sentence: The "universal law of" i was here first. Now if you're a parent reading this do not get offended, i'm trying as hard as i can to be objective about this.
Let's put things into perspective first, we are not talking about who knows more, and we are not talking about who should be in position and we are definitely not talking about naive thinking of a teenager who hasn't seen the world. What we are going to talk about is the idea of generational power. Generational power in some sense is the kind of power you get when you are older or you've "been there first". Everyone of us would eventually come to own it, unless you really lock ourself out of the world.
On one hand one might say that this does not confirm the person's credibility or expertise about the proposed knowledge and on the other hand one might say that since he/she was here before i was he might have some knowledge of what is going on/happen. This is important because knowledge IS power. What i'm trying to ask is... is this kind of power good? In what way? and can it be bad? In what ways do we conform to this and in which places do we not?
What do you think?
(to be concluded....)
posted by Steven at 12:01 AM
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