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Our Collapsing World mirrors TS. Eliot’s The Waste Land where human civilisation ticks away.
- ‘The Waste Land’ by T.S. Eliot highlighted the ambiguity present in the human condition and is still relevant in 2024.
- Eliot's poem, with its complex vision of a machine-led, culturally bereft, and war devastated world, reflects patterns of human behaviour found in society today.
- The digital world of 2024 is collapsing through a reinforcement culture based purely in rational thought with little room for imagination.
- Imagination needs faith and faith is marginalized in this technological world where the instant and rational dominate.
- Eliot's answer emanates from a sense of hope felt in the grief of something left behind.
- In this world where all is rationalized as products for-profit, the control of society, and opposition is shut down, hope is necessary for intelligent beings to go on living.
- Isolation and the permanence of the human condition, in relation to Time, react against the universal and singular realities and their projected stories.
- Eliot observes habits that enslave, imposing ignorance and fear. Observing habits is the glue that adheres convention, belief and the everyday acting as a security blanket for the world.
- In this technological world, consciousness becomes time-stamped datasets, and time becomes a parody, and thoughts of the future are absent.
- The Waste Land expresses the suffering of being human and focuses on the importance of distinguishing the interweaving capacity of the sufferer through the spectator.
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