Life has lost its thrill.
It has become meaningless, it has lost its soul.
Yes, life used to have a soul, it had value, it had meaning.
Despite all the wars, murders, chaos and crises, life was worth living because it had a spirit, because it had meaning and value, maybe because the value was known and the meaning was felt.
MAN HAS BEEN DROPPED INTO THE PIT OF MEANINGLESSNESS: THE VICTORY OF NIHILISM!
An aftermath could be felt, the next phase of life.
The future did not exist. The end of the tunnel was barely visible.
Humanity had not lost faith in the future.
It was as if humanity was enduring all wars, chaos, internal conflicts, etc., clinging to the belief in a better world, a better future.
That's why it had meaning, it had value, life had a soul.
Then something happened: Uncertainties took over… Uncertainty plunged one into the pit of pessimism and despair. The idea of the future, the confidence in the future has disappeared. With the motto of "anything goes" / "everything goes", the idea of truth has lost its meaning, the sense of time and space evaporated, memories were erased, dreams ended, claims disappeared. The result was complete destruction: Humanity was dragged to the brink of nihilism, a pit of meaninglessness.
Wallerstein's "age of uncertainty" has become a reality. Man has become worldless, the world has become dehumanized, as people flee to the seductive, alluring, soulless world of the virtual universe...
The world was suddenly mired in a chaos of meaninglessness, an impasse. Nihilism has settled into the center of life in frightening dimensions: The pit of meaninglessness has deepened, people have become insensitive to the problems of the world, and there has been such a devastating, all-destroying ontological catastrophe of extinction: In a chaotic, nihilist postmodern world that has lost its soul, value and meaning, the continent not occupied by imperialists, There is no place they have not turned into a living hell!
There was a UN, but it was useless. It only protected the interests of the powerful, most of all the Jews, and did not implement any of the unfavorable resolutions regarding Israel, which slowly but steadily swallowed Palestine whole, occupied almost every part of it until it was wiped off the map, and moreover, forced the Palestinian people to live in a bloodbath for 70-odd years.
The UN was used as a tool to legitimize the exploitation and occupation of the imperialists.
THE NEW AGE OF BARBARISM…
Michel Henry, an underappreciated thinker, called the point where things stand now as barbarism and even wrote his book with the same title.
Baudrillard, too, quipped by saying that "in fact, there was no war in Iraq, it was a fireworks show", the use of means of killing that numb emotion and pain through the push of a button, during the first war broadcast on television, amid the invasion of Iraq, he said: "Welcome to the new era of barbarism."
Maffesolli, the social theorist who is seen as today's Foucault, also called the stage of our current age as “the time of the tribes, the age of new barbarism”.
METAVERSE, ESCAPE FOR THE MASSEA, EXPOSURE FOR CAPITALIST LORDS; WHAT IS IT TO US?
I'll move on to talk about Metaverse.
In the previous column, I had said that the Metaverse is the process of worshiping and deifying human beings by inventing a parallel universe and a parallel self.
In this column, I again want to draw your attention to the basic philosophical problems, but at the same time, if we have to, we need to think about how we can transform it and how we can use it in the most efficient way.
Metaverse actually, to put it succinctly, is a seductive virtual universe prison.
Metaverse is what the lords of capitalism have invented in order to further exploit the world, to further grow their capital, to strengthen their power by driving the masses even further, estranging them from the world, alienating them from the world's problems and more importantly from their own world, that is, driving the masses tp the brink of the pit of meaninglessness and nihilism.
Metaverse will replace the internet: The virtual world will become real, it will have the real world wrapped around its finger, it will turn people into clowns.
The world of the Metaverse is a one of escape and exploitation. It is a place and opportunity of escape for the masses who are dragged into the pit of meaninglessness, namely nihilism, and a new possibility and space of exploitation for soulless capitalists.
Can we say let's not miss out on the Metaverse? There are those who say that if we cannot exist in the world of the Metaverse, we can escape the possibilities of the Metaverse just as we miss the technology. There is rightly a new situation and we need to reverse this new situation if possible, and if this is not possible, we need to think about how we can transform it in the most efficient way that would serve us.
