Chapter 57 myth of the times

The rapid development of science in the 20th century has indeed brought human beings into a safe and comfortable paradise. Especially in advanced countries, opening newspapers every day and changing products can cause a little surprise. We live happily in a high material civilization. This is of course thanks to science.But it is also science that brings us into a world that is suffocatingly dull, a world without myths. Science ridiculed the superstition and ignorance of the ancients, lack of rationality and skeptical spirit, but the author is not talented in the experience of life, but I have never heard anyone say it more mysteriously than Lao Tzu, or more thorough than Zhuang Zi, because the essence of life, what is the beginning? What is the end, whether it is the hen or the egg, we have evolved our brains for half a million years, but we still refuse to answer.

Today's science and technology division of labor is fine. Many scholars and experts spend their entire lives only studying a narrow range of projects, just like studying only one of the millions of bricks that build the entire building.They believe that as long as they study piece by piece, one day this building of the mystery of the universe will be unbreakable.To be honest, it's like holding a ruler and measuring the size of the universe. But they still hold high the banner of science and reject everything they consider irrational. All supernatural power and spiritual perception are products of ignorance to them.The end result is that our world has become a lifeless, material world.However, the understanding of the essence of life, what life is, has made no progress.Have they thought that the universe in front of them is already a strange and strange thing.

The dispute between science and metaphysics lies in the fact that the former believes that everything is accidental and probable; while the latter believes that there is no such thing as chance, and everything has its meaning and purpose behind it.Science believes that life comes by chance, and disappears without trace after death; metaphysics believes that life bears a sacred mission, and life is just a short journey, a short period of eternity. Whoever is right and who is wrong is a perpetually debated matter.Experience and perspective determine our biases; our beliefs shape our world.As long as we believe that there are no myths in this world, this is a world without myths. Even if there are myths happening in front of us, we will turn a blind eye to them and hear them without hearing them.The philosopher Carl Jung once said: What our age lacks is a myth that belongs to our age.