Stages Of Modernist Grief

The 17th Century Has Daddy Issues The 17th century was the dad era, and the more you look into it, the more obvious this becomes.  The 17th century itself heavily focused on fathers in their societies and kings themselves often depicted themselves as "father figures" for their kingdoms. This focus is a direct contrast with the 20th century which had a theme of the death of the father where the character of the father figure, if not outright unceremoniously killed, is instead mocked and ridiculed rather than celebrated and redeemed. I think this reflects a significant difference between the zeitgeist of the two eras. The 17th century was the peak productivity whereas the 20th century was when the productivity was completely spent when the culture had run out of fuel.  As I have mentioned the masculine coded eras were outward focused and the feminine coded eras were inward focused. As such the 17th century was the most outward focused era.  This is even critiqued in the Cru...

 The 16th century will return! In the previous series, I compared the centuries of the 20th, 21st, and upcoming 22nd to the maiden, mother, and the crone.  I think it’s only fair to compare this to their masculine counterparts, the centuries of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries using a similar but contrasting format. What we can call the father, the son, and the holy ghost or just the grandfather.  Interestingly, this time it is reversed. Instead of the maiden aging into the mother and then the crone, the holy ghost or the grandfather gives way to the father, which then begets the son. The 16th century is the grandfather era, the 17th century is the father era, and the 18th century is the son era.  People often complain about the 20th century for how it caused “the death of the father”, setting up incentives to make fathers seem irrelevant.  This “death of the father” theme is very much present in 20th century media and symbolized the end of the masculine coded...