Tag: Modernity
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Generational Rupture 6: The Disdain of the Primitive — Modernity’s Hatred of Simplicity and Eternity
The myth of progress is never content with novelty alone—it demands superiority. Each new thing must be better than the old, each generation wiser than the last, each technology more real than the world it replaces. In this scheme, those who remain close to the earth, to silence, to ritual, to repetition—those who still dwell…
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Generational Rupture 2: The Myth of Progress and the Worship of the New
Modernity is often celebrated as the triumph of progress. From scientific discovery to technological innovation, from medicine to human rights, the march of time is assumed to bring improvement. History is seen not as a cycle or a revelation, but as a line leading ever forward. In this vision, the future is the land of…
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Generational Rupture 1: The Age of Forgetting: Why the Past Became the Enemy
There is a wound in the heart of the modern world, and it cuts across time itself. It is the fracture between generations: not simply a difference in taste or temperament, but a growing and often painful divide between the old and the young, the past and the present. The once-revered figures of age, memory,…
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In the Time of Unveiling – 1: The End of the Age of Becoming — Twilight of the Modern Worldview
We are living through the slow collapse of a world — not just political or economic, but metaphysical.Something deeper than systems is failing. Something older than ideology is being exposed.It is not the end of history. It is the end of an illusion about history.We are not watching a single civilization unravel — we are…
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Know Thyself – 8: The Rediscovery of Personhood: From Psychological Construct to Eternal Reality
Know Thyself: The Crisis of Identity and the Return to Being “Man is not merely a part of the world, but the place where the world begins to appear.”– Emanuele Severino The Disappearance of the Person In an age obsessed with identity, the person has all but disappeared. We speak endlessly of roles, traits, preferences,…
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Christianity and the Structure of Being– 3: The Persistence of the Platonic Framework
From Augustine to Modernity: How Christianity Carried the Logic of Annihilation By the time Christianity emerged as the dominant religious force of the Roman Empire, the seeds of a deeper metaphysical tension had already been sown. The Christian proclamation of the eternal had fused with the Platonic suspicion of time, matter, and change. The result…
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