On Monday, April 28, 2014 10:40:38 AM UTC+1, Alberto G.Corona wrote: > > Obviously whoever that believes that there is the possibility of a > transformation of any kind and he deserve it, will think that there > are something or someone that is trying to steal him, since this > transformation does not arrive. > > Then there is a dynamic that explain what happens with modernity: > revolution, paranoid repression, totalitarianism, war, restoration of > order, more revolutions etc.. but also the search for great advances, > in the hope to find definitive solutions for everything. And also the > hunger for news and novelties instead of the search for truth. > > All the essayed in the past is rubbish, even the things that partially > succeeded , since that was not completely successful. The modern > admit no compromises since his non negotiable exigence is need > something definitive that eradicate everything bad and justifies his > own holiness and innocence, that is, a total transformation, a > resurrection. > > Therefore all the past is evil, except those events that in the past > announced the new ideology in fashion. The modern is ever rewriting > history to redecorate morally whatever in the past according with the > new hopes. > > That also happens in his own life: The modern is born every morning.. > without history. He reinvent itself. Today he feels that some sect or > ideology is the solution to all his problems. tomorrow he read > something about some diet, at the next day, running is the answer. The > next day, if the sect does something bad according with the news, he > hates the sect where he was member, but he does not feel that he > shares the charge for being part of the sect in the past. On the > contrary, he hates the sect for stealing him time before knowing what > he know now: the definitive solution for everithing, whatever it is > today. > > That is specially true in the case of women. They are prone to be > influenced much more than men, besides the suffering that this vital > insecurity causes herselves. For this reason, they are the preferred > targets of advertising, political campaigns, evil sectarians and every > kind of flattered, manipulative men. That is the dark side of the > feminist ideology. > > Another dimension of modern religions are the return of magic an the > cult to personality, since the material dimension does not fulfill the > human nature. But that is another long post. > By the looks I'm seeing something not to different than you. It's a perilous moment. I think it's true that now it is so late in the day, only a sweeping transformation that somehow got it right and worked it's way through markets and nations and scientific institutions (the latter probably better competed against by fresh institutions). It feels unrealistic and hard to see. But transformational events have happened, that did have the effect of sweeping a load of apparently intractable problems off the table opening up a new era. In large part that's the story of the West 1600 - 1900. The 20th century is problematic. Amazing advances yet the seeds sown for downfall. I don't know. A romantic point of view would be that at a time like this it has to be understood that individuals..maybe just one...would need to somehow come up with the solution and implement it. Because everything at the scale that would be capable if it wished, is either corrupted already, or de-balled. Obviously it's such a fantastically improbable turnaround, one should do with it what one does with such things. On the other hand, a way to see it would be that because it's so unlikely and no way to know if even one person even tries, at least one person will have to be you
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