Originally posted by bpt3:[..]
Agreed with all of this, which is why I admitted earlier that my own way of categorizing these eras isn't completely clear-cut.
Even so, if still taking the biblical "orientation > disorientation > re-orientation" pattern into account, experiencing "re-orientation" doesn't necessarily mean that all is now totally fine...it just means one is able to live in gratitude - and hope - even in the midst of sometimes continued confusion and loss. ATYCLB and onward express this, I think, with SOI being the culmination of a"second naïveté", in a sense...being "born again", in Christian language.
Of course, I also ponder all of this even as one who thinks Pop and the whole 90s experimenting was vastly superior to ATYCLB and what has followed...
