Tag: Myth of Progress
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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 5: The Myth of the Self-Made Generation — Autonomy, Contingency, and the Fear of Roots
In the fragmented world of images and isolation, another myth has quietly taken hold of the modern imagination—the myth of the self-made self. Inherited not from the past but from the fever of modernity, it whispers to each generation that it must begin again. That the truth lies not behind, but only ahead. That one’s…
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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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New Series Announcement: Generational Rupture and the Eclipse of Being
In every society, the link between generations is more than biological or cultural—it is metaphysical. It is the thread that weaves the present into the eternal structure of meaning. But today, that thread is frayed, if not severed. Across the modern world, we witness a growing rift between young and old, past and future, tradition…
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In the Time of Unveiling – 3: The Courage to Endure — Waiting in the Time of Transition
We are living in a time between.The old structures have lost their power — they no longer guide, no longer persuade, no longer hold.The new has not yet fully appeared. Or if it has, it appears quietly, without institutions, without name, without clarity. This is not just a historical gap.It is a metaphysical waiting —…
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In the Time of Unveiling – 2: Between Nostalgia and Invention — The Two Illusions of Escape
When a worldview collapses, the first instinct is to escape. Some try to go back — to recover the world before the rupture, to restore the lost forms, to rebuild what once gave meaning.Others try to go forward — to invent something radically new, to design new values, new identities, new worlds beyond the ruins.…
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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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Psychology and the Disappearing Self – 4: The Myth of Growth — When Progress Becomes Another Cage
“Keep going.”“Do the work.”“Trust the process.”“Become your best self.” These are the sacred mantras of modern spirituality and psychology. Growth is no longer just a goal — it is a moral obligation, a mark of worth, a sign of self-awareness. To grow is to evolve. To evolve is to be good. To stay the same…
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