NEGATIVE EFFECT OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Ivan Taniputera
11th Juli 2012
One negative effect of western civilization is alienation, that barriers us from our environment and true Self. It is important to find the balance of life based of flexibility, love, and understanding. The punctuality of western Civilization destroys our taste of beauty. Time is choped into hours. Hours are choped into minutes. Minutes are choped into seconds. We forget that time is actually an endless and holistic stream, that can not be separated.
This kind civilization can not create true happiness in your heart. You must go in hurry to your work, because your life is regulated and yoked by hours, minutes, and seconds. This time division is actually artificial, but you see it as a real and vivid phenomena. Why should your life be regulated by unreal phantoms that arise from your imagination. According to my opinion this is not the best civilization that man should have.
