/lit/ - Literature

>>15321517
If we had not been divided by the laws of private property, if common citizens didn't have to spend their entire waking lives fighting for their lives against the pointless and cruel current of the market, perhaps we could all afford the time to be better stewards of nature, which is, evidently, our shared inheritance.

>>11557877
to put it in brainlet's terms,
Modern man knows a good deal about the universe. He knows the atom, he understands the fundamental forces, etc. That's all great stuff.
But then he struts over to philosophy and (like a smug cretin) exclaims "Oh, it's all meaningless because cells and neurochemicals and such!".
He thinks he pulled the robes off of god himself and exposed his crude nakedness... thereby... winning? at something?

Here's the problem: All that knowledge does nothing to shift the fundamental problems of the human condition. We still don't know what consciousness is. We still don't know why we exist. We still don't know what we're supposed to do (and how). It doesn't even solve the simpler more practical problems like the conundrum of harmonious human co-existence.
Modern Man wants a trophy and a retirement check. He thinks he's earned it. But this thing we're in is far from over.