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I agree about the lack of community. There is also something about "artificiality" - it troubles me when walking around a city to know that all this was constru
by ahussain 10y ago
I agree about the lack of community. There is also something about "artificiality" - it troubles me when walking around a city to know that all this was constructed by other people; and getting to grips with the 'documentation' for all this can be daunting.
Do you know of any other authors/philosophers who explore this idea more fully?
- sacha_inchi 10y agoErnest Becker's "The Denial of Death" is the most recent book I've read that touches on the overwhelming nature of modern life. In a nutshell, his idea of a solution to this problem is to not think about it. People who don't dig into the symbolic/artificial nature of society tend to function better.
- wu-ikkyu 10y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
- yarou 10y agoJean Baudrillard and Michel Foucault among others. [0][1] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterotopia_(space) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterotopia_(space)