Quotes About Adaptation

Una vez que el rígido marco de los estamentos sociales fue quebrado, la tarea de "autoidentificación" impuesta a los hombres y mujeres de la modernidad temprana quedó reducida al desafío de vivir "fiel a su clase" ("a la altura de los vecinos"), de adecuarse a los tipos sociales de clases emergentes y modelos de conducta, de imitar, siguiendo un patrón, de "aculturarse", sin perder el paso ni desviarse de la norma.

La posibilidad de contener y asimilar la imparable masa de innovaciones es cada vez menos promisoria, por no decir inalcanzable.

En la sociedad, nada puede declararse exento de la norma universal de la "desechabilidad" y nada puede permitirse perdurar más de lo debido.

Lo que se enfatiza en todo momento es el olvidar, el borrar, el dejar y el reemplazar.

Los miedos que acuciaban a la gente en otras épocas se diferencian de los nuestros en que, ahora, no existe relación alguna entre aquello que provoca el miedo y lo que hacemos para combatirlo.

Ningún marino de hoy perdería el tiempo reparando la parte que ya no sirve para navegar, sino que más bien la reemplazaría con una pieza de repuesto.

T]he secret of all successful 'socialization' is making individuals wish to do what is needed to enable the system to reproduce itself.

vivimos en una época de re-ciclaje en la que nada parece morir del todo, de la misma forma que nada, ni siquiera la vida eterna, parece destinado a durar para siempre.

What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who enter the world of fluid modernity.

Precisar tornar-se o que já se é é a característica da vida moderna.

Damn, some days I wished I'd been made a toaster.

Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.

The reeds give way to the wind and give the wind away

Equilibrations If you walk back and forth through a puddle pretty soon you wet the whole driveway but of course dry the puddle up.

Flux has heightened us into knots of staid tension.

You're always going to be too young for something important to you, too old for something else, and the timing is just not going to be right for a third set of things. That's life, and you can make yourself crazy by dwelling on that. Or you can figure out what you are the right age for, and what the timing is right for, and celebrate those things.

to be of greater use, the rules need to be remolded so that they are more precise and accurate, less egocentric, and more elastic . When rules are discovered to be false, self-defeating, or unworkable, they have to be dropped from the repertoire.

Instead of throwing traps into

There is something very wrong with a people who consider that the greatest that would ever be has already been, and that the best they can do is to duplicate the past.

Even if you are what your parents made you, if you stay that way, it's your own darn fault. We're not going to undo the past. Let's focus on making the necessary changes to improve your functioning.

The solution of mankind's most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.

This is the secret of the spirit, not disclosed to reason: the adaptation of the mind to what is sacred, intellectual humility in the presence of the supreme. The mind surrenders to the mystery of spirit, not in resignation but in love.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

I shall adopt new Muse as fast as they appear to be true Muse.