In this Durkheim’s mechanical society, it is almost impossible to argue and be heard, or to pose a question and escape condemnation. You can never bring forth a new idea, nay, an old idea that marginally swerves away from the norm, and except it to be received by people who think critically and argue objectively. You will have to spend years, thousands of words, sanity and faith in the human race, even blood if you’re so inclined, and they will not listen.
It’s the transition to novel lands that frightens them. Tradition is safe, it’s been explored prior and it’s all predictable and stable and it works to a degree. But these new ideas, shame on you for introducing them. Shame on you for urging them to think and reconsider. You disagree? Who do you think you are? Who are you to defy ages-old, tried and true tradition?
But wasn’t novelty what propelled human advancement? Or was that also decreed by divinity and tradition? Isn’t trial and error the way we express our godliness, without attributing it to a myth? What about the supposed anomalies that add more value to the human experience than do these traditionalists? They mean nothing. Who’s going to hell now, my devil and me, or you?
Cast not your pearls before swine.
I’m not gonna venture into attempts of decoding this riddle of yours, but people are always suspicious of novelity, it’s not popular because it’s unexplored and that makes it different, and people aren’t comfortable with different, But whatever the pearls, whomever the swine, pearls will remain pearls! swines on the other hand can become swans!
novelty, as you say, is something new and I would agree with you on the need to try new solutions to old problems; but adopting certain failed aspects of foreign cultures that have been proven to have only a negative impact on their societies to ours, simply because it is ‘new’ to our society isn’t the same. We should learn from our own and other societies mistakes and improvise our own solutions and our own path that will eventually define a new culture that is more acceptable to our choice of life, at least thats my take.
Even though, I agree with you on that Durkheim’s theories apply to our older generations, but most of the ‘new’ ideas presented by our generations are just blind imitations of western culture taken out of context and without in real experience of that culture, other than the TV and cinema.
sorry for the typo :
“without in real experience of that culture, other than the TV and cinema.”
is :
“without any real experience of that culture, other than the TV and cinema.”