The Alienation of Modern Life
I wonder how many others feel the same…
It’s a typical modern life weekday morning. You wake up at 6:30 a.m. and look out the same window you’ve been looking out for the same 10 years, but only for a brief minute because your phone is right by that window.
You “check” your social media accounts, but inevitably, it turns into a 45-minute scroll fest through your social media of choice.
“Great, now I don’t have time to make a smoothie.”, you mutter to yourself as you get out of bed and finally take a shower, and do the same routine you’ve been doing for the past how-ever many years.
Why is it that we continue to live like this? This past couple of years should have taught us a few things; and one of those things is that life is transient, and the way we did things before really wasn’t working out.
I don’t mean this on a societal level, either.
I mean this on a spiritual, mental, and physical level. We are lucky enough to be human beings- lucky enough to have a relationship with the cosmic infinite, whatever that may actually be.
The great philosopher Plato actually talks about this in his analogy of the Cave in the Republic.
For those unfamiliar, a brief overview of the story of the cave is like this.
