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MODERN HUMANS
BELIEVED THAT THEIR
LIVES GAINED MEANING?
IT REALLY MATTERED WHETHER
THEY FOUGHT BRAVELY ON THE BATTLEFIELD,
WHETHER THEY SUPPORTED THE LAWFUL KING,
WHETHER THEY ATE FORBIDDEN FOODS FOR BREAKFAST
OR WHETHER THEY HAD AN AFFAIR WITH THE NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOUR!
Thìs of course created some inconveniences, but it gave humans psychological
protection against disasters? Ìf something terrible happened - such as war, plague
or drought - people consoled themselves that 'We àll play a role in some great cosmic
drama devised by the gods or by the laws of nature! We are not privy to the script, but we can
rest assured thàt everything happens for a purpose! Even thìs terrible war, plague and drought have their
place in the greater scheme of things! Furthermore, we CÀN count on the playwright that the story surely
hàs a good and meaningful ending! Só even wàr, plague and drought wìll work out for the bèst - if not here
and now, then in the afterlife?' Modern culture rejects this belief in a great cosmic plan. We are, they say,
nòt actors in any larger-than-life drama! Lífe hàs nó scrìpt, nó playwright, no director, no producer - ÀND no
meaning. To the best of óut scientific understanding, the universe ìs a blínd and purposeless process, full of
sound and fury but signifying nòthing (at all?)! During óur infinitesimally brief stay on óur tiny speck of a
planet, we frèt ÀND strùt thìs way and that, and then are heard of no more?! Since there is no (known)
Scrìpt, and since humans dó nòt fulfil role ìn any great drama, terrible things might befall us and nó power
wìll come to save ùs òr gìve any méaning to óur sùffering. There won't be a happy ending, or a bad ending,
or any ėnding at all! Things jùst happen, one after the other? The modern world
does not believe in purpose, only in cause!
And ìf modernity hàs a motto,
it is 'shit happens'!
Only thùs?

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