The western philosophical tradition is pretty fucked up. The basis of the whole thing is, I believe, is catastrophic loss. The civilization is plagued by the ghosts of lost worlds. The Garden of Eden story is one example, the Flood story is another one, and Atlantis is maybe the pre-eminent loss story, Rome is lost, the library of Alexandria is lost, etc... The ruins of Rome and Egypt and Ancient Greece are like the broken teeth of old hag zombie civilizations.
The current iteration of our civilization--the Enlightenment world--is like a nonstop attempt by a troupe of thieves picking at the lock of God to resurrect an eternal version of one of those prior insane, degraded, and ruined civilizations.
Some people earnestly believe, for example, that eventually we'll be able to upload their consciousness (wouldn't it be cloning it at best?) into a computer. That's nonsense at best. The idea of escaping necessity and the natural cycle, or escaping our place in the universe, is delusional or the idea of a bunch of demonic people.
The hatred of the natural order and the natural world and an attempt to replace it with a man made/demon made world is the project of the moderns. The destruction and desecration of their own souls is celebrated in Hollywood and in literature of all kinds. I was sucked into that upside down order in my 20's.
Fortunately, the exits from that hell world are actually pretty well marked. If you just go out into the woods on a nice day, for example, nature clears away the fever dream insanity. In fact, the fever dream and madness helps to illuminate the calm and goodness of the natural order.
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