Culture and Commitment

Culture and Commitment Culture and Commitment by Margaret Mead is an ethnography of the 1960’s and 70’s pertaining to the gap in generations started in the mid 1940’s. It tells of the generation gap created by new technologies such as the nuclear bomb, space exploration, satellites that revolve around the earth, and the planet now being an intercommunicating whole. The effects that these new technologies have had on our culture are explained. Also the hopes …

…whole that could collapse without them, gives them the power to contribute to keeping us all moving in a positive direction and control our futures. Through new technologies, new ideas, and a new sense of togetherness as a whole inter-communicating world, we can move forward with some kind of certainty. In doing so we will not turn into a “prefigurative culture”, as Mead would say where the only certainty about the future is its uncertainty.