What do you think about the concept of "liquid society"?

@reflectingmonkey Im a psychology student and when I first heard the term it amazed me, so glad someone actually investigated it.
To me is more like we are constantly changing but we do not have a "solid ground"

@Alic3ack its what this leads to, I just jumped a few step. If our culture, our concept that make life meaningful are constantly changing, we don't have a steady reference to tell us how to feel about things and a make the concepts in our mind flow with the world around and make life feel great. the "solid ground" you are referring to is that in a "less liquid" culture, there is a correspondence between our upbringing and past experience that constitutes our paradigm through which we see things AND the social activities and the natural order that surround us because these outside patterns are the same as what we have been thought to expect. this correspondence makes everything seem more familiar and our reactions need less improvising and reinventing and this correspondence is what makes life feel meaningful and magical. EX: someone born in a christian world where everyone thinks the same, everyone has the same values, same rituals, same cycles, emotions ,attitudes and prejudism. in such a situation, the brain is imprinted with a paradigm during upbringing and those patterns are confirmed by a environment reflecting this paradigm. It is in a sense society going through it existential phase. Sartre saying "existence precedes essence" means there is no pre-existing meaning to life, you give it the meaning you want. in a way we had been doing that since the dawn of time until we asked "what is the meaning?" and we broke the magic. for Sartre's proposition to lead to happiness, we must choose a meaning and bask in it, jejoice in it, and not change it too often.

@MartinTheFirst in a few words it means we dont have a solid ground and are constantly changing but not necessarily for the better.

@Alic3ack oh