Aperture of Awareness

As a new idea or worldview is being born (perhaps out of the ashes and the crisis of a dying one) the mind’s aperture is blown wide open and there is a vivid awareness of cosmic frameworks and long term causal chains. Perhaps with every new generation however, there is less of an urgency to improve, and the mind’s aperture closes further and further, focusing more on self-gratification, leading to short-term thinking.