How far do you agree that modernity has adversely affected our cultural roots and historical mooring? Also, how to keep a balance between the two?
Modernity changes cultural roots, it does not eliminate them: it creates new regional cultures It is necessary to keep in mind that the story does not change, only the interpretation of it changes
Dear Tariq Khan modernity has installed exclusive discourses that are cultural matrices rooted in the idea of European white. See the works of George Steiner
Fabián Andrés Llano and Marco Antonio Gutiérrez Martínez, I partially agree that Cultural Theory has highlighted cultural roots and historical moorings; however, at the same time, its instrumental tentacles (moral and material) have been tailored as well, that led to cultural alienation and self-estrangement. Or, more precisely, as a result, most not all culture(s) have lost touch with indigenous vividness and vivacity. Things (including Western-led modernity and indigenous cultures) have to be perceived holistically and be seen in past-present-future continuum for setting up a balanced picture of the society.
Modernity does not always affect our cultural roots adversely. It gives new tools to interprete it.
Peter Gay in his book titled Modernity, states that the moderns had an attraction to heresy as a principle and carried out an exercise in self-criticism that led them to innovate. I don't have many references about a look at the traditional and the ancestral under the motto "Make it new"
No culture is static, but rather dynamic. What is called modernity is an expression of dynamism in indigenous culture. Every indigenous culture is constantly moving, maturing, which modernity captures inextricably.
Yes, change is the rule of the world and one has to adapt to this change. No culture is permanent.
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