The First Critics of Modern Life

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21 thoughts on “The First Critics of Modern Life”

  2. 43 years ago, I saw the cities with people stacked on people, streets after streets of people packed together. I imagined billions of chimps in the same circumstance. we wouldn't allow other primates to live in such a crowded and exploited state. we are apes also.
    I have lived in the Sierra Nevada since I left the city 34 years ago.

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  7. A wheel to oblivion!

    Utility (liberals and socialists call it progress) main problem is to consider infinite growth as the default on Earth. It’s a lie force fed to humanity at all cost.

    A naive view of a very challenging problem.

    We will probably face extinction next century! It’s now a real possibility.

    3.5 C is now inevitable and implication should already… make you sweat!

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  9. Bro I hate modern life so much, I’m from the Caribbean and every time I go back it’s such a contrast from my job as an analyst in London, so much of it is simply intentional obfuscation and information overload and you pay to be unconfused and that’s called our service industry. It’s a normative statement taken for granted that the advancement of technology has made us better off. This is just ridiculous at this point.

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  11. Even if I respect the critics of modernity, I enjoy it, especially my internet and the access to information and knowledge that I get starting with my education that I would probably never had got two centuries ago. Nostalgia shouldn't blind people on how many people devoted their lifes to for what they can enjoy now.

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  13. …… it's not even that they should coexist, they should be one and the same, the same side of one coin 👌 well said, and overall well done mate. Thank you for all your efforts and hard work.🙏 ( Living in accordance with nature should not be a reminder, but a rule; for we are a product of nature and going against it would mean, going against the fundamental nature of what it is to be a human beings and that in my opinion will soon or later lead to our own distraction and possibly demise!!! 🤔🙏

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  15. Blood and sacrifice by the working classes and their allies, won the West greater equality (facilitated in part by exporting working poverty). We're now well alone the process of reversing those hard won gains.

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  19. If this video resonates with you, it might be worth checking out Julius Evola’s “Revolt Against the Modern World”. The book does a lot to explain the emptiness of progress

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  20. It's weirdly jarring to have the subtitles differ so often from the audio. Very frustrating to watch if you're hard of hearing – I had to give up after 12 minutes,

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