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Increase the number of courses of action and adventure options per unit time: doing more in less time
Competition as the predominant principle of the
allocation of privileges, power, status, recognition, ...
Social position as an object of permanent competitive negotiation
living life to the fullest means: maximizing options
but: variety of options exceeds the opportunities a person can use in the course of his/her life --> increasing the pace of life
The same techniques that help us to save time, lead to explosion of the options
Why do most people feel like they are running out of time although new technologies and increased efficiency should give us more time to spend freely?
How can we explain the fact that the shortage of time increases the more time you save?
What causes acceleration?
Where do your experiences (from this morning) relate to this?
What do you find critical?
1. technical acceleration
2. acceleration of social change
3. acceleration of the pace of life
Quantity!
Social acceleration represents the shortening of the periods we call/determine as the present.
>>shrinking of the presence<<
What exactly needs to grow when we talk about personal growth?
Who decides what needs to grow?
Where is personal growth helpful, where can it be a hindrance?
the social motor: competition
the cultural motor: the promise of eternity
rate of growth
rate of acceleration
Acceleration outweights deceleration!
Time norms seem "natural"
---> socially constructed
acceleration of the pace of life
acceleration of social change
to remain stable,
you have to grow -
both economically
and individually!
Reason: half-life period / desvaluation of knowledge
technical acceleration