The fashions of time….. (and maybe space)
September 12th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
I just was rummaging through all my things a couple of weeks ago while packing for Germany and I came across an old photo of me taken when I was a child. Let me tell you I was a fashionista, I was wearing a paisley blue and pink top with bright blue shorts dotted with random Valentines day hearts. (It probably wasn’t Valentines Day… cough.)
I am sure we have all done that, looked back at a picture of ourselves, as a child or not, and questioned the fashions of the day, because they change so quickly and radically. It almost seems ridiculous to me now that people actually wore Goucho pants and they were what we would call “in.”
It has been like this all through history too.
It has been a constant thing through history. In every time period people believed things that were ridiculous so strongly it would cause trouble to say anything otherwise.
What scares me is that is not just with clothing fashion, but with moral fashions. They’re just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people. But they’re much more dangerous. There were things that would get you killed if you went back in time and said them. It was even controversial for one person to state that the world was round and not flat, so you couldn’t fall off the edge. Now, most people think it is ridiculous that we actually thought the world was flat. (I think this is also still debated in some circles, so I won’t go into this further.)
It’s tantalizing to think we believe things that people in the future will find ridiculous. What would someone coming back to visit us in a time machine have to be careful not to say?
Miss Mykell
