We Don’t Raise People to Live with Purpose, We Raise Them to Sleepwalk
The Discontent of Modern Culture and the Suppression of Consciousness
Close to the whole of human society is now free from the terror of war, famine and pestilence. As a collective we are richer than we have ever been before. Technological progress has made the seemingly impossible possible. By all accounts the world is a better and more hope filled place than at any previous stage in human history.
Nevertheless, hanging over much of the developed world like a dark cloud sits an omnipresent feeling of discontent. From where does this feeling stem?
In a hope to understand this collective sensation one must first re-examine the metrics that modern society has up until now relied upon to gauge the success of the species. If such a feeling does indeed exist, its comprehension lies beyond the mainstream view of accomplishment as defined in terms of status and monetary value.
It must be asked what kind of countervailing forces associated with modernity have replaced humanities natural foes? In what sense are we richer? And what have been the repercussions of our rapid technological advancement?
The following is an assessment of such questions.
