modernity [Theme] Page 4

Civilization supposedly develops in order to give people happiness. But instead of happiness, she gives us a washing machine, a dishwasher and a robot cleaner, but there was no happiness, and there is no.

First of all, we carry our loneliness with us. Today's person is very lonely, he is deprived of almost all the connections that previously strengthened him: social, national, class.

In an era of strict social gradation of people from the lower strata of society did not envy those who were above, as long as it was dominated by the belief that someone to be poor and who is rich - it depends on the Will of God. The beggar did not envy the millionaire - he was envious of the poor who are over served. Instability in the social strata of the modern world along with egalitarian doctrines of democracy and socialism incredibly pushed the boundaries of envy. ...Thus, our age is a time when envy plays a special role.

The Internet has transformed the feeling of envy in some sort of plague of modernity.

We poor creatures, modern humans... We have conquered disease, we watch over the most powerful machines. But, devoid of mechanical assistants, we are helpless. In ancient times, people grew more tenacious to life.

The conditions dictated by the age of hurrying...
But the heart is so sad about kindness
Unfashionable... Sincere... And true...

- I have a phone. Only it's in the Cabinet.
Why?
- I don't want to stare at your hand all day. I advise you to try.

What is the use of power in modern society? You need to be smarter.

Bitter at times more poetic, Rand mathematical. But both have an element of genius and the ingratitude of the mob, the inability to understand that without Danko, without the Atlanteans, the world is mobile - the anus. The inability and unwillingness to admit it, to support the "Atlantis", that fact did not want to "shrug" with the thought - "die, creature." There's even the old Testament somewhere looming, when people obezyanstvo my God so tired that he Sodom, the Flood, poor guy.

...now everything is different, right? Not better, not worse, just differently, and in truth, in many ways still better. People don't waste their time on nonsense, all the time, and priests in such high esteem, so much easier to be in bed, isn't it?

These days, kids don't like stories that begin with the words: "When I was young".

Weight very easy to push the junk. Or rather because it is only a junk and I agree. The trash clear to her. All of these plush deers for drying dishes, hangers in the form of pimple and pimples in the form of hangers, websites with pictures of the group with tsitatkami... No? You are like this? Pointless book, meaningless event s, bright as candy wrappers, and, as the wrappers are useless.
Millionaire is a very persistent person, who can sell any crap, from heated socks to rubber moose in the toilet. And know you can. No matter who you were, with education, no, the main thing is perseverance and vision. Just the last - a rarity. Yes, perhaps, more stamina, like the ox, so long, tedious, dirty, and he doesn't care - vol.
The billionaire is the man who figured out how to get the crowd to make something better than junk.

On television, I was makeup - powdered face, sprayed hair lacquer from the iron banks. In my time it was called the spray, and now spray. Spray, of course, shorter. English has many such words - small resonant as a ping-pong table, convenient, and economical. Only here earlier were not saved.

The government gives only a concern for their future and the rejection of the present.