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Circa History of the World?
175 000 BC Homosapiens appear
35 000 BC Cave Paintings
30 000 BC Neanderthals end
8 000 BC Agriculture
3 000 BC Civilisations form
475 AD Roman Empire end
1400 AD Renaissance
1800 AD Industrial Revolution
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization
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Pre-Modern
In the Pre-Modern era, many people's sense of self and purpose was often expressed via a faith in some form of deity, be that in a single god or in many gods.[7] Pre-modern cultures have not been thought of creating a sense of distinct individuality,[8][9][10] though. Religious officials, who often held positions of power, were the spiritual intermediaries to the common person. It was only through these intermediaries that the general masses had access to the divine. Tradition was sacred to ancient cultures and was unchanging and the social order of ceremony and morals in a culture could be strictly enforced.[11][12][13][14]
See also: Ancient history and Medieval history
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Modern
In contrast to the pre-modern era, Western civilization made a gradual transition from premodernity to modernity when scientific methods were developed which led many to believe that the use of science would lead to all knowledge, thus throwing back the shroud of myth under which pre-modern peoples lived. New information about the world was discovered via empirical observation,[15] versus the historic use of reason and innate knowledge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_history
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Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The term encompasses the activities and output of those who felt the "traditional" forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism
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Beginning as white, male european value system Modernism has expanded to become a globally dominate ideology. It values and devalues the following;+/-

+ Progressive & new / - Traditional

+ Material / - Spirtual

+ Individual / - Social

+ Abstract / - Wholistic

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The Modern Dilemma
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

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Peak Oil
400-300 000 000 BC Petroleum formation
160 years of Petroleum use since 1850 AD and we are about half way through it
So thats about 300 000 years of formation / 1 year of consumption
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdjL8WXjlGI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvx1xr88qfM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxIINmkE2eQ
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-29/coal-seam-gas-under-renewed-pressure/2861404
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwNgNyiXPLk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HeMAXO9OAs&feature=related
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Die Off
http://dieoff.org/page137.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gejFvcASCzM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNvLTzjfKQA&feature=related
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Post Modernism can be seen as a critique (and yet a continuation) of Modernism
It questions the following without replacing Modernism's core values of materialism and progress;

Avant-garde, originality and appropriation

Gender and sexuality

Cultural identity, nationality and race

Class, economics and politics

Environment and material consumption
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Postmodernism was originally a reaction to modernism. Largely influenced by the Western European "disillusionment" induced by World War II, postmodernism refers to a cultural, intellectual, or artistic state lacking a clear central hierarchy or organizing principle and embodying extreme complexity, contradiction, ambiguity, diversity, interconnectedness or interreferentiality,[4] in a way that is often indistinguishable from a parody of itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernity
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One compact definition is that postmodernism rejects modernism's grand narratives of artistic direction, eradicating the boundaries between high and low forms of art, and disrupting genre's conventions with collision, collage, and fragmentation. Postmodern art holds that all stances are unstable and insincere, and therefore irony, parody, and humor are the only positions that cannot be overturned by critique or revision. "Pluralism and diversity" are other defining features.[28]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_art
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Material Girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b0OyhDQEu8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gWqc7pTNn0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-kSZsvBY-A&feature=related
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George Seurat
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte 1884-86
Oil on canvas81 3/4 x 121 1/4 in. (207.5 x 308.1 cm)
http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/jatte.html
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