Looking for more examples of historical "mass consciousness" like these
1. Marxist class consciousness
2. Calvinist protestant ethic
3. Meiji restoration
4. European renaissance
5. "Dark" ages
6. Neoliberalism
7. "Organization Man"
8. Christianization of Europe
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Hmm. Is there a Facebook consciousness? May be too early to tell. It may be OS of many consciousnesses to come, like Gutenberg press.
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very short-lived, like "wild west" (which was about 10 years between civil war and completion of railroad network) but yeah
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Yeah, music is an appropriate metaphor. Lyrics kinda matter, but often just a couple of refrain lines will do for 99%.
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More recent in US: Post-WWII Optimism -> Red Scare -> neoliberalism -> Great Stagnation -> "Premium Mediocre"-> transhumanism (my guess)????
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I think several of these are too weak to qualify as independent mass consciousnesses. Economic booms/slumps don't generally qualify for me.
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French Revolution, Scientific Revolution, Romantic Period, Periclean Athens, 1848, Enlightenment, China’s May 4th Movement, the Gilded Age, Manifest Destiny, Russian Revolution (February)
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-The Enlightenment
-Romanization of the Mediterranean and Germanic barbarians
-The Axial Age? If that is a thing.
-something smart sounding about social networking...
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Multiculturalism
Manifest Destiny
Christian anarcho-pacifism
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maybe McLuhan's media paradigms: literacy, telegraph, radio, TV, internet
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