Our Modern Crisis: Ancient Discontent (Updated)
Previous post might have given the impression that we moderns have stumbled on the crisis on our own. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The genesis of modern crisis is ancient, rooted in the human nature itself.
The human nature, transcending evolution, always becoming, ever dynamic, is also the scene of a struggle. A struggle between its projections.
The biological man is in existential confrontation with social man who in turn is challenged by technical man who is a rebel against the spiritual man. It is not in power to man to stop or end this confrontation. This confrontation will resolve only when ever unfolding evolutions draws to its unknown conclusion.
Update: In simple words, this means there is always a tension between an individual and society, society and technical progress, technical progress and spiritual faith.
So if the man can't bring the confrontation to its end, what can he do? The overarching aim of philosophy, politics, science, any body of knowledge as conceived by humans should be to try to mitigate the frequent destruction unleashed by evolution even as it carries human to next stages of his transformation.
The human nature, transcending evolution, always becoming, ever dynamic, is also the scene of a struggle. A struggle between its projections.
The biological man is in existential confrontation with social man who in turn is challenged by technical man who is a rebel against the spiritual man. It is not in power to man to stop or end this confrontation. This confrontation will resolve only when ever unfolding evolutions draws to its unknown conclusion.
Update: In simple words, this means there is always a tension between an individual and society, society and technical progress, technical progress and spiritual faith.
So if the man can't bring the confrontation to its end, what can he do? The overarching aim of philosophy, politics, science, any body of knowledge as conceived by humans should be to try to mitigate the frequent destruction unleashed by evolution even as it carries human to next stages of his transformation.
