the following conclusion from a different theoretical perspective:
One consequence of the shift from history in natural sui generis time to the temporality of systems is that the future can no longer be taken for granted. This disappearance of the future has nothing to do with pessimism. It is a consequence of the greater awareness of the fact that social systems create their own time and that the idea of a future is only meaningful to the extent the present and the future can be linked through some (relative) invariance and some sequence.
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