EcoSpirit & EarthCare
At the end of the Modern World,
Ecological Spiritual Energy
for Co-Creating a
Postmodern Ecological-Electronic Civilization
CHRISTOPHER DAWSON ON BOURGEOIS CULTURE (Catholicism & Bourgeois Culture, 1934) The distinctive feature of the bourgeois culture is urbanism. It involves the divorce of humans from Nature and from the life of Earth. It turns the peasant into a minder of machines and the yeoman into a shopkeeper, until ultimately rural life becomes impossible, and the very face of Nature is changed by the destruction of the countryside and the pollution of Earth and the air and the waters. _________________ ROMANO GUARDINI ON THE END OF THE MODERN WORLD (The End of the Modern World, 1950) (Guardini uses the non-inclusive language of his time.) The Modern World is coming to an end ... Technic man came to dominate Nature. Finally, technics were joined indissolubly with an economy of uncontrolled greed ... This frightful destruction did not drop down from heaven; in truth, it rose out of hell! ... Nature is becoming more and more disintegrated ... The machine is swiftly coming into its own ... We seem to be rushing toward an event which from the human point of view can only be described as global catastrophe ... We are now in a position to extend our observations into the religious character of the future order ... The question of the temper of the religious sensibility of the new age remains before us. __________________