modernity [Theme] Page 3

The modern world is brutal and phallocentric. Whether you want it or not, he engages you and crushes you under him.

Left you. You're a hundred years old,
You're outdated. Now no one
Not looking for words that are in old verses:
"Truth", "happiness", "love", not that
He loves the city, chained in night and fear.
You are looking for good and intelligence here,
It's all there - but grandma's price.

But it is characteristic of the present day that vulgar, philistinist souls, aware of their mediocrity, boldly declare their right to vulgarity, and everywhere.

There is no past as such, the past is what the modern period can be considered a completely normal era.

Traditions are a crutch with which insanity from the past gets to us, in the present. After all, the present is always overcoming the past, it is a victory over the past.

only bundles of bills are advertised on posters.

when I arrived, Raju, I decided: these people live like gods.
fabulous empty airports, unprecedented roads
whole glass in the window and a faience toilet even
in the simplest apartment
happy living here, he said,
like a few in this world
their parks are immense, raju, their houses are monolithic.
but none of their inhabitants sings a mantra in the morning,
no kirtan, no prayer.

only bureaucrats and hucksters.

Trust me, it was a black day for the universe when people learned to look for the symptoms of their illnesses online.

We let go of jokes about "Third World problems," but we have fallen victim to our own success. Over the past thirty years, stress illnesses, anxiety neuroses and depression have begun to occur at every turn, although everyone has a flat screen TV and food is delivered to the house. Our crisis is no longer material, but existential and spiritual. We have so much junk and opportunities that we are fed up beyond measure. Because we've managed to see and learn too much, we've seen a lot of situations where we don't conform to the ideal, or aren't good enough, or something is missing. And it drives us crazy.

And I will not sell a single verse.

Essentially, all the problems that modern man solves are ascetic problems. Asceticism should not be seen only in putting on chains. If we see an accountant in chains, we must understand that this is a crazy person, especially if he goes up to the roof at lunchtime and stands there, pummeling.

Modern man is afraid of oblivion, as his pious ancestor once feared hell.

We may have been given a great potential of scientific thought to show that all the riches accumulated by mankind do not come from God, but prove the eternal truth of the Gospel. Therefore, a modern Christian must be, if not fundamentally, classically and organically educated from all sides, then at least he must not shy away from science and culture, must understand that this is important.