JUNGER ON PAIN

“We find ourselves in a situation where we are still capable of grasping what is lost; we can still sense the destruction of values and how the world is becoming more shallow and superficial. New generations are growing up far removed from all our inherited traditions, and it is an amazing feeling to see these children many of whom will live to experience the year 2000. By then, the last remnants of the modern, i.e., Copernican, age will most likely have disappeared.”

INTERPRETATION OF PASSAGE

Junger was trying to explain to us the situation we had to go through in times of pain and sorrow. Even at the time we believe all is lost we still have the will to make things right and turn them around. He also talked about the new generation and how they seem lost when it comes to our traditional heritage. Every country has a tradition they follow of which they learnt from their ancestors. But to him today must of these traditions are not being practiced because they have long been lost.

I chose this passage because; I felt the truth in his massage, most of our richly blessed traditions is nowhere to be found today. And most of these traditions help to shape us morally. The society has made it to look like these traditions are bad and are colloquial to adhere to if you live in a modern world but it is the best think that we could ever think of having. There are a lot of indecent behaviors today in our societies, this is not just people are mad it’s also because we do not have a strong moral up bring that our forefathers use to have before we were born. And this explains why the society is going the way it is now. This makes it a pain and a pity for this generation, rather they embrace and practice the modern way of life wholeheartedly and with confidence.