In examining the configuration of modern society we can explore the motives and players who have concocted our current condition as we move into an unrivalled technological age.
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Category Archives: Society
Those Held in Admiration and Envy Shed Light on Our Inner Desires
By examining those individuals we admire and envy we can get valuable data on ourselves – those we admire have a skill or disposition we want to replicate, those envied achieving something to our distaste. In observing our feelings towards these personalities an avenue opens to learn more about our driest thirsts.
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Does Desire for Ease Come at a Subsequent Cost?
It cannot be said that seeking comfort is innately wrong as animals too pursue the pleasure of coziness, however, it is the excess of it engendering a generation who are weaker, softer, fatter, angrier and more anxious than those previous.
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Our Degree of Care Extends Only as Far as We Can Relate
Acknowledging the enormous spectrum of emotion faced during existence connects us to our fellow sapiens. Joviality to sorrow, excitement to boredom, relaxation to arousal, these sensations signify we are living and unite us with others through shared experience.
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The Depreciation of The Paperback
The greats remain alive in their work and allow the trivialities of modern life to be seen naked. If one spends less time compulsively scanning a screen and more developing reading as a skill the heat of intellect will grant warmth in a world gone cold.
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What if Paganism was Still Prominent?
In Pagan societies mysticism was imbedded in the understanding of life’s operations, like a lightning bolt from a contemptuous Zeus or a calm sea indicating Poseidon’s sacrificial contentment, engendering devout reverence to nature as an extension of the gods. The adherence to nature as a deity is a far cry from our current civilizational creed of use and abuse, continuing to double down on the lubeless degradation of a bleeding planet.
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Is Being Mature Knowing When To Act Immaturely?
Instead of buying into this banal version of an adult, perhaps the most mature among us are those who act immature when applicable and become astute when required. A human functioning this way exhibits unison between the inner-child and the adult self, the union reflected in a gregarious and capable disposition.
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We Will Appear to Future Generations as Those Previous Appear to Us
Each generation looks at itself with glee at the marvels of modern society yet, just as the Romans thought the Goths were heathens for wearing pants, we too will find our ideas laughed and jeered at.
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A Society Equating Wealth to Assets Has a Contaminated Conscious
There is no shame in people who work to survive or who find joy and satisfaction in their occupation, however if they are exchanging most of their life in the pursuit of material are they really living purposefully? On their deathbed will they be happy surrounded by all the stuff they’ve traded their most valuable asset for?
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The Contemporary Human 