/lit/ - Literature

>>14083976
Know God and help others to know Him too (and hence be saved). We were never meant to make a permanent home of this planet, and what we've done in trying to make it so, in becoming worldly, is created a monster (modernity) that we cannot control, and in all likelihood it will eat us up, or at least part of us.

>>14087414
The human condition remains a constant, but the EPISTEMOLOGICAL crisis that is the essential feature of modernity is largely unprecedented, at least in terms of scale. We live in an age when it is impossible to know. Truth and place are not coinciding as they ought to be, as they would be in a more rooted society. The 'givenness' of reality dissolves and our capacity to be moral beings dissolves with it. Life has already been terrible, but at least in former times (though not all former times) it has been possible to know, to have ties and bonds.