The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
We must understand the motives and forces of our time and analyze their structure from three points of view: the material, the functional, and the spiritual. We must make clear in what respects our epoch differs from others and in what respects it is similar.
Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.
We are all affected by the time we are born into, and of course that feeds into your work. Society is based on storytelling - religious myths, opera, film - and 1968 was always seen as a time of rupture and fragmentation. I have always been interested in those words.
We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.