读 [MASTERS OF SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT] 后感

In the passages that may express more pathos than analytical understanding, Simmel sees modern man as surrounded by a world of objects that constrain and dominate his needs and desires.

Technoledgy creates “unnecessary” products to fill “artificial” wants; science creats “unnecessary” knowledgy, that is, knowledgy that is of no particular value but is simply the by-product of the autonomous expansion of scientific activities.

As a result of these trends, modern man finds himself in a deeply problematical situation: he is surrounded by a multiplicity of cultural elements, which, although they are not meaningless to him, are not fundamentally meaningful either. They oppress the individual because he cannot fully assimilate them. But he cannot reject them because they belong at least potentially to the sphere of his own cultural development.

读到这里的时候我就想我每天在电脑前耗费的那些时光，看着不知所谓的网站，听着虽然不错也没什么意义的音乐，看看无聊的杂志。就这样，我的时间就这么溜走了，究竟是我生在这个时代的幸福还是悲哀呢？

但是这个词”fundamentally”也不是什么严格的界定，究竟什么东西算是“有意义”的？这个问题恐怕追问一辈子也不会有答案的。

所以说对于我来说，追寻“意义”可能是一个终极的目标吧。不过有一点到是真的，就好象fight club里所说的，对于这个物质世界的反抗，将不可避免地出现。

因为我们的快乐，是不可能建立在这个上面的。