Part of the “modern” crisis is the fact we don’t examine or
we fail to look deep into ourselves… we “moderns”,
we look at life as if life were just an inch or two deep, like
water that is very shallow vs water that is really deep, like
an ocean… we don’t seek very deep into anything…
if it is deeper then an inch or two, we declare victory
and move on…
the mystery of who we are as human beings is deep and being “modern”
we simply pretend it is shallow and easily understood…
and thus we ignore it… as we ignore any question of existence
that might make us question our very assumptions…
to be a “modern” human being requires us to make assumptions
and then never look deeply at those assumptions…to assume is
the “modern” condition…we think we have answers, but hell,
we don’t even understand the questions or we misinterpret the
questions to get really wrong answers…
and the most “modern” thing we do is hold to our ego and vanities…
we think because we are the most recent, we hold all the cards…
no one digs deep into what it means to be human or what it means to
really ask, “what am I to do?”… the answer is just assumed and never
challenged…in fact, another definition of being modern is
“never challenge the answers we have right now”
we have plenty of knowledge, 1 + 1 = 2 and the E=Mc2…
and how the sun keeps on chugging along…we have more knowledge
then we know what to do with…we have plenty of ego and vanity to
go around… the "modern’ need for self-admiration knows no bound…
and is found in our social media…but in our pretentiousness and
self-importance, we have forgotten that wisdom is far more important
then knowledge…and we have no wisdom… for to have wisdom is
to have the opposite of the Modern curse, which is our conceited, self worship,
selfishness of the modern age… the modern man is the one who say,
“I have mine, fuck you”… and doesn’t feel any self conscience about saying that…
Modern man has forgotten that our wonderful GDP has been built upon
generations of human beings…they worked and we benefit… and that means
that we must work for the next generations… as other past generations worked
for us…
and in our egoism, we have failed to see that…
it is all about us and our greatness… we are the pinnacle of civilization…
and we truly believe that… a little modesty and some humility wouldn’t
hurt us…for our entire civilization has been built by our ancestors and we
don’t even see that…
the “modern” crisis is where we can’t see our true role in this story of
life, of the evolution of who we are…and who we should become…
for life is not a set notion, no, it is a process and we have failed to see
the process of life…the process of being human… where we
we see the process of existence as being suffering and pain…
it is a process… we need to accept and welcome the very process that has
made us human…and then move beyond, to the next step of the process
of us going from animal to animal/human to becoming/the process of becoming
human, fully human…
the question of philosophy is the answer of understanding the process of
how we became human… what does it mean to be human?
and how do we make the next step in that process of becoming fully human,
not just animal/human?
our “Modern” world avoids questions like this because it is too much work,
and it is easier to pretend we are already at the end of the process of being
human and we are not…
“what am I to do?” “what am I to believe in?” “what should I hope for?”
seeking these questions instead of seeking how do I become rich or how
do I become famous or how do I gain titles?
the “modern” viewpoint is very shallow and superficial… how do we
deepen the way we see existence? how do we get to a world that doesn’t take
everything for granted? a world where we must actually work for our answers,
instead of taking our current prejudices and ism’s and biases as the “right” answers…
Kropotkin