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Based on the beliefs that unless one was constantly on the move one was not alive, and that the faster the tempo of life the more alive one was, modern civilization was inherently restless and lacked stability. It aimed to conquer time and space and developed increasingly speedier modes of transport and communication. Cars were replaced by trains, and the latter by planes, but no one asked why one needed to travel so fast and what one intended to do with the time saved. Thanks to its restlessness and ‘mindless activism’, mistakenly equated with dynamism and energy, modern civilization undermined man’s unity with his environment and fellow men, and destroyed stable and ongestablished communities. In the absence of natural and social roots and the stable and enduring landmarks which alone gave human beings a sense of identity and continuity, they had become abstract, indeterminate, empty, and related to each other at best by mutual
indifference, at worst by mutual hostility.

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