Globalization of 1880s and 1980s differs only by passage of one hundred years

The long, slow, steady passage of time has been the number one reason why the anger and angst felt by the teenagers of the 1880s (about the then new and disturbing global mixing and diversity of modernization) has mellowed in the teenagers of the 1980s.

Habit - boring old shoe habit - has worked better to grow the seeds of tolerance than any amount of sensitivity training....

modernity's "Purity obsession" as unconscious reaction against the "mixing" of early modernization

The first task of Modernity's newly invented "Science" was to erect a hyper-nationalist border around "The Truth".

A border complete with guards, fences and passports - between the "truth" inside and the "non-truth" outside , the "normal" inside and the "non-normal" outside.

These new "scientists" didn't do all this consciously.

Inventing 'science' and 'scientists' as a reaction against the chaos of modernization

The mid-nineteenth century invented that most paradoxical and yet key figure of Modernity : the dynamically active full-time experimentalist called "the scientist" , intent on proving that the world is both statically knowable and statically controllable.

This invention , still damaging our world , was an unconscious reaction against the early side effects of modernization.