Modern Life And Its Fast Pace Flow

After spending the past two months examining the arguments of four great thinkers, it is clear that there is a lot more to politics than people assume. Despite the four different opinions as to what the ends and goals of politics are, there was one theme in particular that stood out to me: all of the thinkers based their arguments on their perspectives of human nature. Political science is an extremely social discipline, and this justifies the diversity of thought and opinion regarding this subject. This is especially reflected in the views of the human race between Aristotle, Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and Sigmund Freud. Though each of the four had expressed unique, profound, and compelling views of the nature of politics, Freud’s perspective of human nature and civilization resonated with me as the most realistic and eye-opening, as all of his claims are grounded in the human experience and the real world.

The poor, the ones struggling to live out of their pine tree handmade shacks, living with the trauma endured by repressive oligarchies who have maintained a grappling of an astonishing amount of wealth, have out of their conditions been forced to view life through different lenses. No one object has a universal interpretation for all, for when a child born into a family that has been intoxicated by their wealth would view say a materialistic possession such as a car in a different manner than a child whose family is living on 2 cents a day. We can trace back the timeline to the days of the Jesus of Nazareth, a historical example that is praised upon in the United States like no other, however, it appears that the most valuable teaching has fallen upon deaf ears, because greed is rampant in the free market model to the point where it is what it functions on and what it encourages from its consumerist based society. The proud and elite minded individuals who think and coins and stacks, will fail to connect the dots, or perhaps they will connect the dots but continue to refuge into a denial that already has very scientific support, at least this is appears to be the case if we are thinking in terms of human suffering that could be preventable if their was a reorganization of society. Perhaps this long winded approach to the dilemmas facing the modern world might be written off as too simplistic or a sort of glorification of anti-civilizational rhetoric and action, but it is quite the opposite. Suthie sees in the computer the potential for human overachievement, a step on the escalator to explore into the realms and magnificus potentials of the electronic world. Suthie flirts with the idea for

The relationship between the individual and his/her society is a subject of continual interest not only to philosophers and religious thinkers. We, as individuals, have hopes, plans, needs, and expectations. Likewise, society has its own, which present itself in the form of laws, traditions, and needs for the greater good. Often, these needs and demands of the individual come in conflict with those of society, and this raises problems for both. Due to the

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.

Lately, it is nearly impossible to read a newspaper, read an article or even turn on your television without learning about the overwhelming amount of troubles that have plagued our world today. Contrary to our scientific development, it seems as though humanity has made hardly any advancements in the quest for world peace. The world as we once knew it is nearly gone and now the remnants of it can only be found in the precious reminiscences of the old, the dusted bindings of books, and the hearts of those who crave for society to return back to the way it was. Wars that use to be fought on enemy lines have now been brought home, governments that rose to power preaching democratic ideologies have grown to be totalitarian, and now more than ever,

The human race has made tremendous advancements at a staggering rate over the past half-century. These advancements have taken form through the forms of technology, arts, and philosophy, just to name a few. Yet, there remains the question of whether society as a whole has progressed or if a decline in social justice has been the unfortunate price that we have paid for advancement elsewhere. Through fascist regimes and two of the most devastating wars in modern history, the early nineteenth century has left many searching for explanations as to how we have allowed for such atrocities to take shape. Erich Fromm analyzes the individual’s eagerness for obedience in “The Individual in the Chains of Illusion.” Albert Camus implements a nihilistic and existential commentary in “The Myth of Sisyphus.” Jean-Paul Sartre stresses engagement within the individual in “Existentialism.” Sigmund Freud explores the natural hostility of human nature in “Civilization and its Discontents.” Finally, Vladimir Lenin denounces the capitalist and imperialist ideologies that several nations have recently adopted in “Revolutionary Politics in a World at War.” These compositions are desperate attempts to deconstruct society and human nature to its core as a means to resolve global tensions.

Two hundred and sixty-seven years ago began a time of innovation and invention, as well as the adoption of social theories which brought about change that is seen in the footings of nearly every society today. However, even in times of human advancement which seemed to be for the better, devastating consequences were still seen across the world, particularly in the Middle East and Africa. Hidden in the shadows of history is a dark reality that resulted from advancements made by man; a reality of slavery, both in the restriction of freedoms as well as economic entrapment, and a reality with the blind justification for cultural destruction, using internal strife of developing nations as a weapon in and of itself. Between the 1750’s and the 1910’s there was a plethora of historically monumental events, as well as technological, and societal advancements that made the second

People have somewhat moved away from transcend of sacred of the high power, but there still remain other forces that restrict the sense of individualism, which many highlight it to “modern freedom” (Taylor, p. 2, 1991). Hindering of satisfaction of individualism, which are and not limited to societal structures that include economic, technological and human existence factors that hinders our modern freedom to be

We live in a society of violence and extravagance. One can pick up a newspaper and see a headline reading “Bride Killed On Wedding Day By Crazed Ex-Boy Friend”. We live in an age of people who drive hundred thousand dollar cars. These are on opposite sides of the spectrum. We see people causing great pain and people who are trying to lose themselves in material goods, to avoid the suffering in life. This is the society we live in, which can be seen in all civilizations in the history of man. It was evident in the time of Greek heroism and the days of Hebrew culture. Life seems to be a journey to control ones happiness by avoiding craziness in oneself and others. This craziness or blind rage is called

In this paper, I will discuss three different schools of thought that, while they may seem to explain the inner workings of society, by themselves they fail to satisfy completely. For each theory, I will discuss the basics and cover the main tenants of each. Then, I will discuss the ambiguities, inadequacies and irrelevance to reality based on our current understanding of modern society.

The world we live in was upon centuries created by us, people, under the influence of authorities, which in most of the time were in the form of politicians, kings, emperors and so on and so forth. Politics became a large part of our society, in fact it became so large in the modern world, it is one of the most important, if not the most important area of life. It became a field, that either pushes us and everything else forward to development and social evolution or it drags us down to the depths of fear and primal instincts, like the most basic one in the form of survival. Many people were aware of the power politics have and how an influence they are to the rest of the world. But there were also people, that insightfully could detect the

We survive in a world that, in spite of the fact that it has fringes, it is boundless. Individuals can travel anyplace, see anything, background each inclination that ever existed, yet we are not fulfilled. We attempt to force verges on ourselves, we battle today to be perceived as not having a place with their group, to be named as a feature of a littler gathering.The saddest and cruelest part of mankind to me; is the means by which each progressive era rehashes the same errors of the past one. A man can carry on with his entire life - oblivious of this legacy of collected knowledge. He may never go to these acknowledge until further down the road when on trial for homicide; he looks the mother of his casualty in the eyes and all of a sudden understands the genuine frightfulness of his wrongdoing and the trouble he hath fashioned. Human behavior, function and the way the human body works is always a reliable competition over compelled assets. From this perspective, those with more assets appear to have more power. This unfaltering conflict licenses society to create and moving forward and becoming something great.We often seem to think that our behavior comes from the brain and functions of our body but honestly it comes from the what you want to do, you have control over it all, that why we each call it “my

In today’s world where everybody wants the new smart phone device or a brand new car. Humans seem to have lost a sense with reality to appreciate the things they already have. Within to how many concerns are in the human race the main problem that we have is control. We always seem to want everything. Taking a moment to understand what people see in the headlines every day is celebrity gossip, sports gossip and observing which person in social media likes somebody else’s post on Facebook. The bottom line is that humans have set themselves hiding in their own bubble and are afraid to open their eyes to realize that humans are the main problem in this world. But it never occurs in humans to why we have to have an education, get a college degree, get married, have children, retire and move on from life. These are the expectations of the average human to live the perfect lifestyle. But it

In the modern day, it’s easy to see man’s need for technology. The need to surpass previous limits is what drives society today in such a technologically advanced world. Although we continuously push for newer, faster, more powerful computers and components, we barely stop and think about how society in turn affects its development.

In many ways, although humanity has evolved technologically, many of the basic questions we have about ourselves and our place in the universe remain similar to those asked in the Ancient World. We remain caught, as Simone Weill notes, between the "universality of justice and the personal intimacy of love" which continues to wreak havoc with our ability to reconcile many of the issues we continue to face in the late 20th and early 21st century. Try as we might, it is quite difficult to understand that the 20th century brought some of the greatest examples of human dignity and expression of good, contrasted with the banality of evil.