The Problem of Time

Steve Mouzon, on the Problem of Time:

The bottom line is this: any system of thought, whether Modernism, historicism, or something else, that insists we use ideas only from restricted points in time is flat wrong because it deprives us of some (or even most) of the best solutions to a problem. Many have been working for years to figure out how to live sustainably today. We haven’t figured it out yet, so it’s obviously a big problem. To deprive a problem so large of any good ideas that might help solve it is insane. We must be allowed to use the things that work, whether they were invented now or at some other time!

As I previously posited, place is a much more important factor than time. The past is neither a blueprint to be copied nor a model to eschew but a platform to build upon. Likewise, the future is neither something to be feared nor does it hold all the answers. We should respect the past and anticipate the future.