THE UNCONTROLLABILITY OF THE WORLD

The driving cultural force of that form of life we call 'modern' is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in enc ountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world - only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world that is fu lly known, in which everything has been planned and mastered, would be a dead world. Our lives are played out on the border between what we can control and that which lies outside our control. But because we late-modern human beings seek to make the world controll able, we ...[Read more]