Week 10--Wednesday Class Reflection

It’s no wonder existentialism and nihilism has thrived in western culture in recent history: we no longer regard our contemporary setting in space and time to be revelatory or meaningful in any ultimate way. We’ve used rationalism to cast out the spirits of our time. There is no sense of this moment in time being valuable. When the past is seen as more valuable and ultimate (mythic times or when the canon was recorded), the present is drab at best, dismal at most, and the future is hopeless (if we extrapolate from the progression from the past to the future).