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Aleister Crowley did not come to the empty place. On the contrary, there was soil. In the late XIX - early XX century in Europe and America, intellectual circles were carried away by occult ideas. However, the fashion for secret knowledge was only a part of another, wider povetry. Everyone was looking for new knowledge that would radically change the world.
The end of the XIX century is the time of rapid, explosive development of science. We, somehow already accustomed to the fact that almost every decade there are different technical innovations, it is difficult to understand the shift in the psychology of the then people. In fact, during the life of one generation, technology miracles have appeared, without which it is impossible to imagine modern civilization. Telegraph, telephone, electric lighting, and then - cars and airplanes. The science of the pearl developed rapidly, and it seemed that there was no problem, that it could not solve. At the same time, negative aspects of technical progress have not yet emerged. Then they did not know the words "Chernobyl zone", "Fukushima". Acid rain did not flow from the sky, and the fish were caught in large European rivers. It seemed that scientists can do anything! Let's recall, for example, that then I was tempted by the science of Jules Verne, a super-popular in those days.
Scientific thinking is inherently rational. Therefore, it is not surprising that the ideas of many people began to occupy the ideas of world reorganization on a rational basis. The most striking example of this is the fashionable at the time Marxism. Which seemed to give an answer to all the pressing questions.
Not surprisingly, the position of religion was shocked. In the new picture of the world there was no place for God. Religion seemed something out of date, a property of the last century. And, as it usually happens, the main admirers of science were not only scientists, but also those who were spinning around somewhere. An example of the textbook is the Russian nihilists, whose ranks, to be honest, were replenished by not very educated people. They paradoxically made science a new symbol of faith. Rationalism in this case has become emasculated and miserable. Remember the familiar image of Bazarov from the school bench. Preacher Turgenev new ideas - a man who is not too smart, not particularly educated, but has an incredible aplomb.
If there is an action, the reaction is inevitable. Among the then intellectuals there were many people who did not decide the rationality of the new time. There were many complaints, but the main ones, repeating themselves in different ways - the latest trends in the development of society lead to "crushing" equalizing rights. Without exaggerating too much, we can formulate this: progress leads to the triumph of a self-satisfied philistine who is not interested in anything other than his microscopic personal interests. There comes an era of self-satisfied mediocrity and general gray.
In any society there are enough people who claim to be an intellectual elite. Do not feed them bread - just give them the consciousness that they are not like everyone else, that they are much higher than the "gray crowd". And it does not matter whether these statements are justified or not. In the end, you can come up with a dimension in which you will be "very, very".
For example. The author of these lines in the mid-80s communicated a lot with our Russian hippies. For the most part, this audience was very shabby, intellectually and very uneducated. All their outlook consisted of two dozen platitudes taken from third parties. In addition, the hippies frankly spent time in the empty, not wanting to do anything. But - they absolutely sincerely considered themselves to be the "salt of the earth", standing over the "peaceful inhabitants", ordinary people.
Aleister Crowley did not come to the empty place. On the contrary, there was soil. In the late XIX - early XX century in Europe and America, intellectual circles were carried away by occult ideas. However, the fashion for secret knowledge was only a part of another, wider povetry. Everyone was looking for new knowledge that would radically change the world.
The end of the XIX century is the time of rapid, explosive development of science. We, somehow already accustomed to the fact that almost every decade there are different technical innovations, it is difficult to understand the shift in the psychology of the then people. In fact, during the life of one generation, technology miracles have appeared, without which it is impossible to imagine modern civilization. Telegraph, telephone, electric lighting, and then - cars and airplanes. The science of the pearl developed rapidly, and it seemed that there was no problem, that it could not solve. At the same time, negative aspects of technical progress have not yet emerged. Then they did not know the words "Chernobyl zone", "Fukushima". Acid rain did not flow from the sky, and the fish were caught in large European rivers. It seemed that scientists can do anything! Let's recall, for example, that then I was tempted by the science of Jules Verne, a super-popular in those days.
Scientific thinking is inherently rational. Therefore, it is not surprising that the ideas of many people began to occupy the ideas of world reorganization on a rational basis. The most striking example of this is the fashionable at the time Marxism. Which seemed to give an answer to all the pressing questions.
Not surprisingly, the position of religion was shocked. In the new picture of the world there was no place for God. Religion seemed something out of date, a property of the last century. And, as it usually happens, the main admirers of science were not only scientists, but also those who were spinning around somewhere. An example of the textbook is the Russian nihilists, whose ranks, to be honest, were replenished by not very educated people. They paradoxically made science a new symbol of faith. Rationalism in this case has become emasculated and miserable. Remember the familiar image of Bazarov from the school bench. Preacher Turgenev new ideas - a man who is not too smart, not particularly educated, but has an incredible aplomb.
If there is an action, the reaction is inevitable. Among the then intellectuals there were many people who did not decide the rationality of the new time. There were many complaints, but the main ones, repeating themselves in different ways - the latest trends in the development of society lead to "crushing" equalizing rights. Without exaggerating too much, we can formulate this: progress leads to the triumph of a self-satisfied philistine who is not interested in anything other than his microscopic personal interests. There comes an era of self-satisfied mediocrity and general gray.
In any society there are enough people who claim to be an intellectual elite. Do not feed them bread - just give them the consciousness that they are not like everyone else, that they are much higher than the "gray crowd". And it does not matter whether these statements are justified or not. In the end, you can come up with a dimension in which you will be "very, very".
For example. The author of these lines in the mid-80s communicated a lot with our Russian hippies. For the most part, this audience was very shabby, intellectually and very uneducated. All their outlook consisted of two dozen platitudes taken from third parties. In addition, the hippies frankly spent time in the empty, not wanting to do anything. But - they absolutely sincerely considered themselves to be the "salt of the earth", standing over the "peaceful inhabitants", ordinary people.