Question

Explain why Mumford in "Mechanization of Modern Culture" says that the Benedictines are the founders of modern capitalism. Give examples from your own life how, on a typical day, you observe both mechanical time and organic time.

Answer 1

In the 20th century lewis Mumford is a great thinker, he utilized his knowledge in various fields of architecture, literature, technology, history, society, and planning. He is an insightful writer of the city. Mumford idea of the city to become inhabitants as citizens. It made the market life of the city. There was civilization are found in the urban life of the city. He introduced a broad range of city culture, technology, value, faith, moral and he creates a multi-faceted nature of human life with discpline. He declared Benedictines are the founder of modern capitalism and their regular routine by bell ringing on the hyman action made benedictines as mechanization. Their life iron disciple of the rule. the rule of law and bureaucracy for resolving disputes rationally. Due to institutional performance and special labor force in the catholic group made transgenerational investment made the accumulation of long term capital. There was new discovery, wealth creation. a new type of the machine was invented due to technology improvement and freedom of enterprise, market forces, and competition provided by the Benedictines. benedictine become famous as entrepreneurs, In the 20th-century revolution of the clock-time, Mumford said clock, not the steam-engine is the key machine of the modern industrial age.
In our real-life on a typical day mechanical time how the clock and time it take us for our regular routine life as a programmed one. Techilogy world and its time-frequency made the life for correct followup. the timing made our life so modern and somewhere some time we lack and lost with mechanical time.
In Organic time we fulfill our needs by ourselves. there were similar rules for everyone's life and mutual needs in our life in modern society. Technology improvement made that possible. we are not interdependent with anyone for our needs.