modernity
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Modern man’s bitterness and sorrow, already so apparent in Byron, has only one source: the mind’s image of matter as infinite, as subject to time without end and without beginning, which provokes a cosmic terror before a universe that exists nowhere. Hence the question he constantly asks of himself, walking and sleeping: Where is space? The Newtonian universe is a prison.
Czesław Miłosz -
We live in a world of intermediaries, and intermediaries for intermediaries, in a world of lobbyists, consultants, PR agents. People are paid by others to introduce someone to someone else, who will advise them how to make money on something that someone else has created. How is it possible that our population remains constant and yet we have more and more intermediaries.
Václav Havel