The High Cost of Re-Enchantment
We must recover a society suffused with the wonder that nourishes the soul.
We must recover a society suffused with the wonder that nourishes the soul.
There is something uncanny about the evident humanness of an old artifact—and something comforting as well.
We did not choose modernity, but we can choose how to live within it.
To rebel against modernity may involve the overthrow of the modern in the interest of reviving something older.
In our nihilistic age, Boito’s Mefistofele may be primed for a comeback.
We are the first to live in a completely new era that no longer wants anything to do with the thinking of the ancestors, but is based entirely on a new spirit and new values.
If we do not wish for our reality to become a boundless, shapeshifting simulacrum, we may just need to rebuild the entire modern worldview from the ground up.
Unlike imagination, fantasy permits one to depart from reality and take refuge in cheap consolations that cannot be found in this world and would destroy our world if they were here.
Poland very much feels like a country that’s accelerating towards the awful competition of ideologies that has engulfed the rest of the West.
The Magnificent Ambersons engages with issues of technological and social change in modernity. But it is also a very human story, focusing on a single family, detailing the lives of its members as change rocks their way of life
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