modern man
Noun
Meaning
subspecies of Homo sapiens; includes all modern races
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
Half the trouble about the modern man is that he is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.