Ldar09867
the gods envy us because we're mortal
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Nietzsche’s concept of the Last Man is a prophetic description of the world as it is today.
You are basking in a fake glory.
You are entertained and satiated.
You are seemingly productive, but you are not great.
If you feel this and aren’t bothered by it, look away. If you feel this and it bothers you, read on.
As a child, you dreamed of conquering new worlds, of being a hero and a pioneer. As you matured, you grew content with smaller dreams.
It’s said that you live in the most prosperous era of human history, a supposed golden age that rose from the Enlightenment. But what if this is the dark age? How many times have you been fed the script that you are living in the best time the world has ever seen? Some metrics justify it, but what about others?
Millions of children in the US are diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and children as young as eight are being diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder. Is an obedient youth the sign of a healthy society? Are we aiming for docile children? Their wildness, the purest form of the human spirit, should be celebrated. Instead, we stick them in windowless schools and wonder why they’re not obedient. Our children are being torn apart and rebuilt within a prison-like school system. Their bodies may come and go each day, but their minds are encaged.
Our senior citizens, our grandparents and our parents, are being locked up in other types of prisons. The rejuvenating force of children and the wisdom of elders have been increasingly extricated from society. Many more of our seniors should be at home with us; multigenerational homes are a relic of the past. We cast off blood relatives at the thought of inconvenience. We’re so over-indexed on productivity that we’ve forgotten what it means to share blood, what it means to build community, what it means to experience the full range of human emotion.
“Death in the modern age, whether due to illness or accident, is devoid of drama. We live in an age in which there is no heroic death. To die for a noble cause was thought to be the most glorious, heroic, or honorable way to die, but there are no noble causes today. Democratic governments obviously have no need for noble causes.”
The modern man has an obsession with comfort that seeks an easy, pain-free life with minimal effort, warm connections, and small daily pleasures.
And that is why your life feels pointless
You are basking in a fake glory.
You are entertained and satiated.
You are seemingly productive, but you are not great.
If you feel this and aren’t bothered by it, look away. If you feel this and it bothers you, read on.
As a child, you dreamed of conquering new worlds, of being a hero and a pioneer. As you matured, you grew content with smaller dreams.
It’s said that you live in the most prosperous era of human history, a supposed golden age that rose from the Enlightenment. But what if this is the dark age? How many times have you been fed the script that you are living in the best time the world has ever seen? Some metrics justify it, but what about others?
Millions of children in the US are diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and children as young as eight are being diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder. Is an obedient youth the sign of a healthy society? Are we aiming for docile children? Their wildness, the purest form of the human spirit, should be celebrated. Instead, we stick them in windowless schools and wonder why they’re not obedient. Our children are being torn apart and rebuilt within a prison-like school system. Their bodies may come and go each day, but their minds are encaged.
Our senior citizens, our grandparents and our parents, are being locked up in other types of prisons. The rejuvenating force of children and the wisdom of elders have been increasingly extricated from society. Many more of our seniors should be at home with us; multigenerational homes are a relic of the past. We cast off blood relatives at the thought of inconvenience. We’re so over-indexed on productivity that we’ve forgotten what it means to share blood, what it means to build community, what it means to experience the full range of human emotion.
“Death in the modern age, whether due to illness or accident, is devoid of drama. We live in an age in which there is no heroic death. To die for a noble cause was thought to be the most glorious, heroic, or honorable way to die, but there are no noble causes today. Democratic governments obviously have no need for noble causes.”
The modern man has an obsession with comfort that seeks an easy, pain-free life with minimal effort, warm connections, and small daily pleasures.
And that is why your life feels pointless
