/lit/ - Literature

It seems to me that modernity is at once unaware of the metaphysical and the visceral components of reality. on the one hand, we are pampered and spoiled. all base needs come with relative ease to most living in the modern world. our world is sterile and we are in large part disconnected from the visceral connection to the world around us that our ancestors had. the physical world in modernity could be said to be little more than an inconvenient medium through which we can experience ideas, which have become the primary mode of human experience. all aspects of the physical world have been in some way radicalized, dissected, or otherwise reduced to data by modernity. in short, we are a primarily intellectual society. yet, on the other hand, we are very secular. society has little connection with the transcendental, spiritual aspect of reality. so, what are we anchored to? one would assume that the intellectual society would, being primarily concerned with something as intangible as ideas, be deeply connected to the transcendental. how can we be at once disconnected from the physical world and deeply materialistic?