4/29/2023 0 Comments Madcap retreats![]() Yet this argument has been vigorously attacked by some natural scientists and other scholars due to what they perceive as its dangerous flirtation with relativism. Social constructivists argue that what we call “nature” isfar less universal and extrahuman than generally assumed. Key words: Extreme Geography cultural geography tourism geography Routes 666 high school car clubs living with contingency custom car culture altruism consumerism alienation from Nature cultural geography Diogenes of Sinope Modernity Postmodernity existential angst Hubcap morality proactively restores order to a disrupted, disintegrating universe. Even those who remain Children of Descartes in cognitive and moral realms would probably choose to follow the reckless and extreme Children of Diogenes out of the City of Modernity rather than remain behind to die This is their dilemma: abandon the City or assume the risks of an abandoned lifestyle.Īltruism as a "hubcap morality" in this chapter is represented by optimistic members of the Modern Boomer Generation (in contrast to cynical Postmodern Millennials) who once - at the risk of inconvenience and their own health and safety - attempted to retrieve lost hubcaps from the city streets and highways and then lean these misplaced objects against fireplugs in the unlikely event that their grateful owners might retrieve them. Exploring the new dimensions of cyberspace expands the opportunity for expanding cognitive and moral explorations. Risk taking is one of the keys to understanding the contemporary youth crisis. ![]() Americans at the end of the twentieth century are increasingly a risk-oriented mobile culture that still loves a road trip. Some unexpected attributes of modem automotive culture may carry over into the new millennium to have adaptive significance along postmodem pathways of uncertainty.
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