rm a position in relation to the world. Not a passing opinion, but a more or less coherent understanding of the reality in which they live. This position may relate to politics, religion, economics, or even the meaning of existence itself.
In the history of humanity, multiple cultures have existed, each with its vision of the world, its religion, its social organization, and its way of understanding destiny.
Modernity has spread the idea that history is continuous progress. We have been taught to think of time as an ascending line, an indefinite accumulation of technical and social advances.
However, historical experience suggests otherwise.