in the modern era… we have had “discoveries” about the basic
nature of human existence…
for example, Darwin book came out in 1859… evolution is another
way to look at human existence…
we have distinct looks at the conscious and unconscious mind,
Husserl and Freud…
we have had extensive look at “Being” by Heidegger and his followers…
we have a vast library of what is economics since Marx… and we still
continue to explore this…
we have explore what it meant to exists without a god… for as
Nietzsche points out, “God is dead” and the more important point,
we have killed him… it isn’t enough to point out that “GOD is dead”
we have to notice we have killed him… and that very vital point is
left out…so we had an extensive look at god and theology since N.
the various political revolutions, in the modern era, the American,
the French, the Russian, have forced us to think and rethink what the
political means to us as human beings…
what all this means is that we have had to rethink the foundations
of human existence since the first great modern event, the French Revolution…
we have to rethink the foundations of human existence with the rise of
the scientific revolution… but science travels slowly and we have had time,
until recently, to keep up with science… but today,
we have yet to incorporate modern science into an understanding
of what it means to be human…
we have, as yet, not been able to incorporate Quantum physics into
a what does this mean to be human? And that failure has lead to something
important…
Human beings are and have been, since the inception of the modern age…
say, 1800… we have been fractured…the various revolutions and
the new explorations into such things as “being” and “consciousness” and
“unconsciousness” and “evolution” and to short hand it, “marxism”…
has lead us to become fractured…both collectively and individually…
there has been no collective theory which unifies the whole that we
have been exploring… “being” and “consciousness” and “evolution”
are simply individual terms with no overall understanding of what
they mean to us as human beings…
we are fractured, individually and collectively because we don’t have
a unified theory that can incorporate evolution and being and
consciousness… the very important aspects we have been exploring
since the French Revolution…
but the question arises… can we unify these quite different aspects of existence…
can we incorporate quantum physics and evolution and “being” and
consciousness into one overall understanding of our existence?
of the universe we live in?
if we focus on the individual aspects of existence, say “being” we miss all the rest
of what it means to be a human being in this universe, at this time and place…
or if we focus on the evolution aspect of existence, we miss other aspects of
existence…
we cannot hold to a single vision of our existence… we must
engage with large aspects of existence to explain or understand
what it means to be human…so for Marx to try to explain that
all of human existence is found in the study of economics is simply
false… to be sure economics play a role, but just a role, just
as the political and the social and philosophical and the scientific plays a role in
what it means to be human…
I think being fractured, individually means that one has gone deeply into
what it means as a human being… and seeing our understanding of existence
is fractured, we too are also fractured…
Kropotkin