certan on Nostr: In the sphere of intellectual life, the major fact of our time is a kind of ...

In the sphere of intellectual life, the major fact of our time is a kind of unconscious but widely shared refusal to grasp the real situation that the world reveals.

People refuse to see what truly constitutes our world.

While this is especially true of intellectuals, it is also true of all people of our day and of our civilization as a whole. It is as though an enormous machine had been designed to keep people from becoming aware, to propel
them into unconscious rejection or a flight into unreality.