People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh."
[Afterword]
Tags: reading books modern-society modern-life anachronisms
What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any possible faith in the permanence of our labours. Our ancestors could believe that their achievements had a chance of bearing up against the flow of events. We know time to be a hurricane. Our buildings, our sense of style, our ideas, all of these will soon enough be anachronisms, and the machines in which we now take inordinate pride will seem no less bathetic than Yorick's skull.
Alain de BottonTags: time death work technology revolution achievements permanence sociology anachronisms
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