{The Polarisation Shift [continued]}[23rd June 1990]

[Redbook7:156-157][19900623:0925b]{The Polarisation Shift [continued]}[23rd June 1990]

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The fundamental change which has been occurring over the last few hundred years* in European (and probably Global) culture may be represented as a change in emphasis from a vertical polarisation (Top v Bottom, Religious v Secular, Cerebral v Manufactoral) to a horizontal {opposition}** (Left v Right, Socialist v Conservative, Inspirational v Analytic).

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In former times, for example, the fundamental battle was considered to be for Men’s Souls; but the place of artists alongside the secular and religious hierarchy was generally appreciated. Nowadays, the battle for Souls is for the most part forgotten; but inspiration has no officially recognised place in Society, and the revolutionary struggle of Left v Right has achieved an unprecedented intensity, replacing the generally more evolutionary cycles (this is a superficial judgement) of earlier times, at least in Christian Europe.

*perhaps since c1700,

ref TS Eliot’s ‘Disassociation [sic]**** of Sensibility’, re Thought v Feeling

{(ref VI:[[Redbook6:42-43)][19881128:2046c]{Literary Circles [continued (3)]}[28th November 1988],] 43)}

**[Originally, ‘polarisation’]

***[‘fundamental’ is not a part of the ms diagram but an insertion into the text following it]

****[correctly, dissociation]

(Like the rest of the family, I have Hay Fever/Flu, which may account for the mess here [in the ms])

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