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Zhang Zhaohan, Aug. 17, 2025
Nietzsche said: Modern people live too hastily, too anxiously. That kind of relentless competition, that impatient rush to pick all the fruits before they are ripe, that kind of relentless competition, etches deep lines and anxiety on people’s faces, making it impossible for them to breathe calmly, as if even breathing is a waste of time!
In this rapidly spinning world, everyone is caught in a dizzying rush, busy with the desire for success and profit, busy chasing immediate gains. Living in constant turmoil, in a frenzied, restless anxiety, we rush forward like a flock of sheep. Why the rush? Where are we ultimately going? Aren’t we all heading to the slaughterhouse?
Modern people, because of their inner emptiness and lack of soul, live like squirrels and sheep, and can only use external affairs to fill and cover up the emptiness of their souls, becoming nothing more than busy, materialistic shells!
This profit-driven lifestyle plunges modern people into constant pretense, deception, and competition. They deceive each other, and even themselves. They are ashamed to be alone and quiet with their own souls; a moment of contemplation almost brings pangs of conscience. They are constantly pursuing what is “useful,” completely abandoning what is “useless,” including many interests and hobbies!
Leisure, tranquility, and contemplation are essential conditions for the emergence of high culture. Modern life has robbed people of leisure, of moments of peace and reflection. People even fear leisure, forgetting that the pursuit of material desires is merely an animal instinct; there are higher spiritual pursuits, and the ecological environment conducive to the development of refined, healthy living has vanished!
Modern people are afraid of being alone, hate quiet, avoid introspection, and resist contemplation, so they rush into things to cover up the unease of conscience when facing themselves alone!
It’s understandable to pursue material things under the sun. Humans must work to survive, but if one is overly enthusiastic, thoughtless, and immersed in the burdens of daily life to obtain more than what is necessary for survival, then one is putting the cart before the horse and achieving the opposite of what is needed!
Modern people’s hurried pace is a noisy, time-consuming, foolishly self-satisfied diligence, with their entire lives occupied by work and family obligations, leaving no time or energy to contemplate life. In the end, they merely register in this world, check in haphazardly, and then leave, gone.
