Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The "eighth continent" and grand narrative

The "eighth continent" and grand narrative www.thebeijingnews.com · 2006-11-27 9: 36: 00 · Source: Beijing News

In the Internet many elephants are charging, if the other attachment to the big topics and details of mistakes, you can use the phrase "and in Grand narrative" of a brick killed.

Grand narrative is the field of Humanities, ironically those bianyici bent on eating days without talking about how we eat. For example, "total Westernization adjustment is not suitable for China" is a grand narrative, family and social capitalist is grand narrative, Deng public stress: no argument.

Natural areas also have great narrative.

Evolution of the grand narrative, early is because a lot of evidence of the chain is also a need to constantly added, no wonder many people against it. Continental drift that has seen great narrative. Such a big thing, the span of 100 million years, covering the entire surface of the Earth, you wigner lying in bed watching him for a while just to get the map? no wonder old Wei as this depressed by the second, final expedition to Greenland simply to throw in there life is a ball.

Recently, scientists said that the African continent million years after the split, part of the eighth continent in the world.

It has also been in on the East African Rift Valley, grand narrative came again. Of course, grand narrative also differentiated levels. Continental drift said it is a top-level, supporters will take the East African rift as examples, in this sense discussed the East African Rift Valley is not a grand narrative. But to me, the word involves a up to 5000 km of tectonic evolution of the future of millions of years, is still a grand narrative.

If you edit the report are correct, the scientists say should be can't rely on the spectrum.

First of all must be clear what is split. If you have this trend starts even if there are 10 million years, already; if defined as the last sea water irrigation in mind with other parts of Africa, East Africa, how to $ 140 million to more than 200 years later. But anyway, this is not a million years, may also be "extreme statements longer", anyway you live to the day. Then one, what is the "eighth continent" of the world. East African Rift into the ocean, West of the main part of the continent called Chau since no problem, but out of East Africa, generally bigger than India, much smaller than Australia, are not qualified to do the "island" also required further discussion.

Grand narrative of embarrassment from here.

Even if you can correctly noted a trend, but you cannot put a lot of details. Fang zizhou were engaged in science are often win on fake, is in the details section-by-room-by-House which you street fighting, menlian infants had fallen for you are all fixed bone injuries of muscles and tendons.

However for top non-professionals, having to then jiaozhen, know a big trend.

I understand that scientists simply meant, but also not his invention. Land and sea distribution is not eternal, like dinosaurs was born at the beginning of the world's only continent, until the extinction of these big guys, land shapes already have today's appearance, this intermediate experience less than 200 years. Tens of millions of years of evolution of the year, if God, maybe he can be fascinating as tangram; life hundred humans into civilized society full filled too but seven thousand years, although not experience, but will gradually feel clearly this trend is also very remarkable achievements. In this sense, it does not have to blame. Like the East African Rift this topic, in fact, the more is the aesthetic sense. There is a humanity's earliest birth place, and this also thanks to 10 million years ago there opened the "crack".

Li Fang-(media practitioners, author of the Li Fang-geography ")

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