/lit/ - Literature

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The point is, the spend countless hours trying to pin-point just "why" modernity is the way it is in hyper-specific terms bonds one to the narrative that "modernity" is something that needs to be "overcome" (in a sense that its moreso than any other time period in history.)

And I'm not saying this as someone who hasn't elaborated upon this myself. I have spent literal years trying to figure out all the manifold reasons for just why exactly "the world is fucked." And the thing was, the more I looked into it, the more I realised that it really was just a few fundamental reasons, which incidentally also happen to be the same sort of curses people have lamented for thousands of years.

Yes, you can talk about the industrial revolution, or the shift away from a divine understanding of the cosmos to just crass empiricism, or the ascendancy of capital and the influence finance has on collective decision making, or the division of labour as a concept, or the creation of religious dogma at the Council of Nicaea, or the suppression of free expressions of motherhood and femininity, or technological addiction and the distraction economy, or a million other reasons, but all of these, at their core, are just the outward manifestations of the same goddamn psychological neuroses that have always plagued man and have only just found new mediums to express themselves.

Modernity is not a "tiger to be ridden." It is a fact of life to be integrated and transcended.