35817HoDeYuNoHa233TheModern Covenant: Modernity is
Q
A DEAL...
All of us sign up
to this deal on the day we are born,
and it regulates our lives until the day we die?
Very few of us can ever rescind or transcend this deal!
It shapes our food, our jobs and our dreams, and it decides where we dwell,
whom we love and how we pass away? At first sight modernity looks like an extremely complicated deal,
hence few try to understand what they have signed up for. Like when you download some software and are
asked to sign an accompanying contract that consists of dozens of pages of legalise - you take one look at it,
immediately scroll down to the last page, tick 'I agree' and forget about it? Yet in fact modernity is a
surprisingly simple deal! The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up
meaning in exchange for power?! Until modern times most cultures believed that humans played a part in
some great cosmic plan. The plan was devised by the omnipotent gods or by the eternal laws of nature, and
humankind could nòt change it. The cosmic plan gave meaning to human life, but also restricted húman
power. Humans were much like actors on a stage. The script gave meaning to their every word, tear and
gesture - but placed strict limits on their performance. Hamlet cannot murder Claudius in Act I, or leave
Denmark and go to an ashram in India? Shakespeare won't allow it! Similarly, humans cannot live for ever,
they cannot escape all diseases, and they cannot do as they please.
It's nòt in the script.
A DEAL...
All of us sign up
to this deal on the day we are born,
and it regulates our lives until the day we die?
Very few of us can ever rescind or transcend this deal!
It shapes our food, our jobs and our dreams, and it decides where we dwell,
whom we love and how we pass away? At first sight modernity looks like an extremely complicated deal,
hence few try to understand what they have signed up for. Like when you download some software and are
asked to sign an accompanying contract that consists of dozens of pages of legalise - you take one look at it,
immediately scroll down to the last page, tick 'I agree' and forget about it? Yet in fact modernity is a
surprisingly simple deal! The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up
meaning in exchange for power?! Until modern times most cultures believed that humans played a part in
some great cosmic plan. The plan was devised by the omnipotent gods or by the eternal laws of nature, and
humankind could nòt change it. The cosmic plan gave meaning to human life, but also restricted húman
power. Humans were much like actors on a stage. The script gave meaning to their every word, tear and
gesture - but placed strict limits on their performance. Hamlet cannot murder Claudius in Act I, or leave
Denmark and go to an ashram in India? Shakespeare won't allow it! Similarly, humans cannot live for ever,
they cannot escape all diseases, and they cannot do as they please.
It's nòt in the script.
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