The trend of western history is to cultivate faith, avoid dogma, listen and watch well, looking at end to better decide means. I will walk through each point and prove it. I also prove my thought on the word at the end. In the end you will find yourself leaning toward saying yes, the trend of western history is a Landers states.
Is the trend of Western History to cultivate a skeptical faith, avoid dogma, listen and watch well, to try to look at ends to better chose means? Yes, yes that is the dominate trend. Faith is not as publicly dictative as it used to be, many people don’t consider what religious repercussions occur when shopping at one store over another. Dogma; was thrown out of the window when the democracy came in, if enough people agree to abolish a law, they send in a petition and out goes the law. Then you look at the commercials and advertising; in the business world it is all advertising and profit. Businesses are all trying to get you to listen to them, and that is what you do, listen and find the best deal. Looking to ends to better determine the way to get there. Wether driving a car or opening a store you do it everyday.
Faith. Centuries ago in Italy, as shown in Medici Money, the typical public decisions are based off of what will happen to my soul if I do this, or don’t do that. The banks wanted to make money, usually by interest. But, back in that time collecting interest was considered usury and was a horrible sin. In the U.S. on the other hand, banks don’t even think twice about assigning a variable rate to a loan claiming that it can be lower than constant rate. In truth, the variable rate can change at the bank will, when the bank isn’t doing well, or when the bank is well off. Now because of the separation of Church and State, religion has become something personal and you are no longer pressured into any religion. Wether that is good or not is for you to decide, but because of that, western culture has cultivated a skeptical religious state.
When dogma is considered, it can to equated to a monarchy rule. It can also be viewed as what the church was back in Rome. A group that dictates rules that were decided in the name of God. When the democracy was created in America dogma was thrown out of the window; yes there are laws, but laws are not cemented in stone. Appeals can be made, contradicting laws formed, or election of officials with opposite opinions can be done. So dogma is being abolished.
Listening and watching well can lead to better business opportunities, and when working with many opportunities, you need to listen to everything going of around you. For example, in the World is Flat, a great example emerges. Friedman talks about how he used to buy tickets for an airplane, arriving at the airport nice and early the morning of the flight to make sure he got a good seat. But, one time he discovered that even though he arrived early enough to get a good seat he was still stuck with a middle class seat. He later discovered that you could now go online and buy the ticket from home. Many people in our culture have their eyes on the movement of technology. They are constantly watching for new technology to arrive and when it hits, they start working with it.
Finally working with projections and predictions of the future people want to find means to get there. For example, when you are driving a car you want to project and say, I want to get to the closest Apple Store. Now how to I get there? You can start by using google maps, then formulating the path by which you want to approach. Same thing with business, a CEO will say this is where we want to go. How to we get there? Then comes in the planing and progress report. This is the way that the US works.
The trend of Western History is to cultivate a skeptical faith, as shown by the decrease of publicly religious blocks. It is also to avoid dogma by the creation of the democratic system. The public now watches, listens, and evaluates decisions for the betterment of themselves. Then you have predictions and projections that come with the effect of working with the means. The only disagreement that comes from this, is, the trend of western culture is now spreading into the eastern culture. China and Japan now are using the same lines like the western businesses are.
