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[ormoluinhen]

"Unable to create a a solidity for himself, liberal man lapses into a form of spiritual fatigue, a state of apathy in which he decides such wider, grander questions are hardly worth addressing. The symptoms of this lethargy are all about us.

The pessimism, anguish, skepticism and despair of so much of twentieth-century art and literature are

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[streetsounds]

The big things are there and are worth talking about, but we have come to judge ourselves by what people think of what we say, rather than what happens because of what we say. The risk of embarrassment become greater than the risk of ignorance and so we keep quiet, especially about the big things.

The world goes in cycles and one day the big things will be important again.

[doc_halfmoon]

That's quite interesting ... I'm currently studying something about this argument right now: with your permission, I'd like to share with you three basic points I recently considered about society during my Philosophic Sessions. ;)

[ormoluinhen]

yes of course you can! sorry for the late reply - please share I would be interested to hear

[doc_halfmoon]

Thank you my dear

[ormoluinhen]

This is very interesting and I think it might be right! thanks for sharing this! Let's have the example as well!!!

[lyra]

I disagree with this statement! I honestly don't think the reason for the pessimism is to do with there being nothing big to talk about. There's still the same issues and problems now that there was years ago, so that can't be it.

[ormoluinhen]

I think he means that the big questions are still there - it's just it's not fashionable to engage with them anymore and this leads to apathetic and lack of meaning