Quite Random Etymologising

No, I doubt that's a word.

I have been trying to come up with a new word for the gradual slide back into Classicism. Not the struggle of classes, but rather the functionalist utilitarian world view. Think of the industrial revolution, and how man was often idealised as a cog within the machine. During that time people thought, lived, and made art in a very structured realist manner.

Then Romanticism came, and people began to have more of a mindset based in aesthetic beauty, emotion, contextual meaning, and freedom of thought.

However, I sincerely believe we (we being the western culture, and possibly by vicarious nature, the whole world) are changing back to a classicist nature. Not wrought by industrial revolution, and the modern miracle of assembly lines, but rather by the presence of Computers. In the same manner that computer programs rely on "if-then" scenarios, and a veritable field of contingency reactions, I think we (again, the above definition) are gradually thinking more and more like this.

This manner of thinking seems to allow well for standardised thought and action (note: not necessarily uniformed, but standardised), but seems to negate the usefulness of very important skills, nearly lost now - deduction, wisdom, and common sense.

For now, I will refer to this as "Contingencism": the cultural, legal, and mental movement wherein intuition and common extrapolation are disregarded, in lieu of reliance on standardised conditional responses.

I seem to have ranted, how unfortunate, I hope it was interesting.

- Andrew D. Oates