The Blasé Attitude

George Simmel talks about the blasé attitude produced by our money economy in "The Metropolis and Mental Life." It got me thinking... isn't it true. The constant flow of stimuli in our lives has over-sensitized us to an extent that rarely do things touch us, can things move us. We are governed by calculation and rationality, which "hallows out the core of things, their peculiarities, their specific values and their uniqueness and incomparability in a way which is beyond repair." Our feelings are mumbled over by reasoning and we stop listening to the inner voice. We learn not to make mistakes; we question our desires... do we really govern our lives? Golden fall leaf carried by the wind doesn't touch us, and a simple act of friendship is glanced over. Instead, we focus on what we ain't got...
Let's take a trip to the nature... let's follow the bears, stomping Right, Left, Right, Left... let's go on mountain tops and remember that even SUVs are Lego cars... let's go to the beach.

Comments

[Katherine Kennedy]

I feel.

[dd]

lets open our hearts and our minds ... let life move us, rather than trying to move life or not move at all.

hope you dont mind me reading your blog, too. you write so well, and empathetically. how do you reconcile the beauty you see in people, and the world, with the ugly things they do? haha, keep dreaming, keep dancing, keep believing ... and please, keep writing.