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Mon, 10 Apr 2006

Before and after.


This essay is being written under impression of past events.
People always like to say that it is much better somewhere where they never were, either it is in different geographical position, or somewhere in the past or maybe future. According to geographical position I always like to live in Russia, although there are a lot of things inside people minds which I would like to see changed.
But I really think that golden era of mankind as thinking, sentient being has gone already.
I never met a man who knows 5 or more foreign languages, but almost every intelligent person knew at least three 100 years ago.
I never read any modern author which would write like Shakespeare (although it was really hard to read for me in original, so I stopped, but even translated it is incredible), Pushkin or Lermontov.
I never read any modern philosopher which had so deep ideas like antic thinker.

But what I see and hear every day is always submitted to one simple law: mass-production.

People produce more and more stuff which has worse and worse quality, so people would throw this and get new one, which will be thrown later for the new one.
No, number of really talented people does not decrease, but it becomes harder and harder to break away from the swamp. So we do not see a man who knows a lot of languages, since this requires a lot of time, which must be spent in mass-production cycle to get some money. We do not have gigantic thinkers, since mass-production does not require this. And new talents see that everything around them is subjected to grey mass-production law, and this deprives of the will.

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