DBA123, post class 2/12

At the end of class, we focused our discussion on the traditional perspective vs the Anti-modernist view. Both have such extreme outlooks it is hard to decide which to agree with. From one perspective, it is easy to go with the traditional standpoint…”it worked then, it will work now.” But what is out there? What are we ruling out by going with what we already know? Dr. Casey made a statement that summed up the Anti-modernist view really well, “The only thing I know for sure, is that I don’t know anything.” This perspective is also interesting. Do we really know that much? Most of us just regurgitate what we are told and present it like our own ideas. This doesn’t mean we do know what we’re talking about. We haven’t done the research and found out all the background information.
Both are easy to agree with but both are easy to make rebuttals against as well. What is the standpoint in the middle? For those of us who can’t commit to one perspective, what viewpoint is there for those of us who are not extreme to either standpoint? Today’s class provoked many ideas and concepts that can be seen as controversial and it is very hard to rationalize any of them.