It is necessary to wait for some time and take a more general look at
the trajectory of our life or if we were more willing at the trajectory
of the lives along with a philosophical reflection, maybe a sort of
philosophy on life history. With the main question that what are we
doing? Where have we stood in our life and in the history of life? How
much are we made up by our pure ideas and how much by the public
imported ones? What are the effects of the imported phenomena on the
psyche and the structure of our life?
It is enough, at the
minimum look, to choose a subject or a phenomenon and then measure its
ratio and the volume of its impact on our lives. For example,
Materialism, not the one that deals with the rejection of the spiritual
truth, A kind that ,in more pragmatic mood devours immaterial parts like
religion, morality and the sublime art and then exports in a
materialistic form.
A part of it may well be seen and under the
systematic consumerism is recognized to the public. Perhaps In a simple
and tangible words: "You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all
of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into
materialism."
And of course, being systematic become thinkable,
because you need to pause and align your energy and your thoughts or
need to change the route of your thinking, you should know that you are
in front of a powerful system. A system that its Ideas and tastes have
been tattooed all over your body and your mind, and its thoughts flow on
your tongue.
Famous Mitt Romney's father gives the crisis
serious attention and believes we need to block it by a strong leader
and perhaps a mighty movement to bring back the spiritual values and to
remove the materialism and its affiliates such as the excessive
selfishness and the modern immoralities.
It is upsetting that despite
the fixed range of human lifetime, regardless of the events
corresponding to each era, the speed rate of the growing materialism and
its penetration into the lives and the community have increased several
times. Maybe similar to the speech of Billy Graham it can be known like
a forced emigration from temple to the matter. By this separation, what
that remains is self-alienation, to the extent that after a period of
time the peace be continuously sacrificed for the anxiety.
At the
same time, you are able to establish a struggle on the opposite line,
you don't need to go directly into the battle, and it is enough to add
other things to your program, or drag a part of your materialism to the
different direction, for instance altruism and helping the needy
families. It means that buy a material but change the place of using
from your home to another one; by this, beyond the creation of
spirituality, indirectly you have gone to the war of consumerism.
And
let's not forget that if this is accompanied by the awareness of the
young generation as if we kill two birds with one stone. And thus we
have prepared some minds for the future history that from now they have
learned the fight against the materialism and consumerism as one of its
outcomes, because according to Soyinka it should be remembered that" We
live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to
humanity, no matter where."
Materialism, not by violence and
hardship that comes with temptation, but the consequence is not other
than trouble, since the attainment of the matter throughout the history
of life has been along with hardship, and this is of course due to the
nature of the matter. It must be understood that the tranquility is a
spiritual subject and this is what we seek in every time and every
aspect of our life and it is the fact that brings with itself happiness.
But unfortunately, a type of historical determinism has changed the
place of means and goals and by taking advantage of the "Fear" taken
away the possibility of rethinking from us.
And the Media, as
well, like a pair of glasses with iron glass only shows us a wall of
advertising. A branch of modern slavery can be found here. Sionil Jose
believes that" We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross
materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason
we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and
we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able."
Human
is Matter's Slave! The result of this speech. There is no need to think
about that, we all are experiencing. Among these, what is worrying is
the materialistic dangerous covering on the light of wisdom, as
Sheldrake stated in this regard:" Contemporary science is based on the
philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or
physical."
The method for confronting is also from the type of
Meaning: Rethinking in the philosophy of our life history. Asking basic
questions of our goals in addition to philosophical reading of past
events of the life and the correct positioning of the current location.
*Ph.D. Student of History and Researcher in Philosophy of history
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