I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.
Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.
The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
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