We moderns think of ourselves as superior or above other times
and their cultures and why? Because we have couches and large screen
TV’s and fancy cars and smartphones…We have all the luxuries of
our modern times and who needs the past when all they were concerned
about were such unimportant matters as truth and art and love…
What do we moderns need with such unessential matters of beauty
and truth when we have the highest religion of all, materialism…
Our all consuming pursuit of profits/money has made such things
as any search for knowledge or wisdom or truth or beauty, nonessential
or superfluous……………
it is wasteful to pursuit unneeded idea’s that cannot create profits…
we have one value and one value only and that is the creation of profits…
Knowledge or wisdom or truth cannot, is not a means for creating profit…
we moderns have no need of such things as for example, beauty…
unless said beauty creates profits…
Art for example, has no place in the modern world… we have removed
any need for art and it pursuit of beauty and truth…for those less advanced
cultures that failed to understand the meaning of life which is the pursuit
of profits, they failed because they foolishly thought that the pursuit was the
really a pursuit of beauty and beauty was truth… and truth was beauty…
we moderns have no need of such foolishness… truth is bought and paid for
and beauty is bought and paid for and to think such foolishness that beauty
might actually lead to the truth, such naïve nonsense isn’t tolerated
in our modern age… we who view everything in light of what can
be bought and sold… truth has its price and beauty has its price…
that is all that matter to us moderns……. what is beauty is determined
by the market forces that creates our wages and determines the price of everything
and that is all that matters… we moderns who know the price of everything
and those foolish ancients like Voltaire who thought that beauty was truth
and truth was beauty but they failed to price anything…… if it can’t be bought
or sold, what is it value?
For how can truth or beauty have value if it can’t be bought or sold?
what value has honor or peace or love if it can’t be bought or sold?
We moderns have removed the foolishness of the ancients because
we no longer believe in love or peace or beauty because those
ideals will not bring us any profits/money………
We moderns clearly are so much more advance over past civilizations,
past cultures because we can buy and sell trinkets and gadgets and whatchamacallit
like our cars and phones and TV’s sets…who needs such worthless
idea’s like beauty and love and truth and justice and art?
clearly we are at the height of civilization when we can purchase
a 65 inch TV…and what does it matter that we don’t pursue
such trivial matters love or beauty or art or truth……
indeed, what does it matter?
Kropotkin