Why we say modernity distances us from reality

17 11 10 - 06:03

From today's news of the dysfunction:

Nye appeared determined to finish his presentation, but began slurring his words and stumbled against his laptop, Camacho said. At first, Nye refused the offer of a chair and continued taking sips from a water bottle. Camacho said Nye was eventually removed from the stage.

"Nobody went to his aid at the very beginning when he first collapsed -- that just perplexed me beyond reason," USC senior Alastair Fairbanks said. "Instead, I saw students texting and updating their Twitter statuses. It was just all a very bizarre evening." - LAT

Everything is an image projected on a cave wall.

Everything is a TV show, a twitter fart, a blog post, a video game. They are all extensions of us, not effects on us corresponding to causes in a big world out there.

Give a mouse a giant brain, and it pretends its giant brain is the world.

For a few centuries, thanks to a philosophy of transcendental idealism and royalism, Europe pulled itself out of this human soul-ghetto.

No more. RIP honesty, sanity, hope, joy and courage.

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