The Hour is Here

Look inside before too late and freeze memory of happiness

https://www.myburg.org/2020/08/berdyaev-on-dehumanization.html

The central theme of our epoch is that of all history -- the fate of man. What is taking place in the world today is not a crisis of humanism (that is a topic of secondary importance), but the crisis of humanity. We face the question, is that being to whom the future belongs to be called man, as previously, or something other? We are witnessing the process of dehumanization in all phases of culture and of social life. Above all, moral consciousness is being dehumanized. Man has ceased to be the supreme value: he has ceased to have any value at all. The youth of whole world, communist, fascist, national-socialist or those simply carried away by technology or sport -- this youth is not only anti-humanistic in its attitudes, but often anti-human. Does this mean that we should defend the old humanism against today's youth? In many of my books I have called attention to the crisis in humanism, and tried to show that it inevitably develops into anti-humanism and that its final stage is a denial of man. Humanism has become powerless and must be replaced. Humanism bound up with the renaissance of antiquity is very frail; its development implies an aristocratic social order and democracy has dealt it terrible blows, with the masses and the power of technology breaking into cultural life. The machine dehumanizes human life. Man, desiring no longer to be the image of God, becomes the image of the machine. In its process of democratization, beginning with the eighteenth century, humanism goes along line of subjecting to society, to social ordinariness, it generalizes man -- it is losing itself.

https://ko-fi.com/thejournaloflingeringsanity