“Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of striving to fulfill wishes of the material kind. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.”
Hmmm, so we enter what is for a huge percentage of the world’s population the most spiritual time of the year, and spirituality can only be achieved, or at least inspired, or at the very least made somewhat worthy of interest, by being linked to the point of replacement by sheer materialism. Considering how spiritual the professor, despite being a genuine atheist, was, it makes one wonder if religious faith has become the pill one takes to feel better about lacking spirituality.
Now I don’t want to put down materialism, I love many objects, but when that becomes all there is to fill the void something is amiss.
Now we can logically go on three different routes from here. The first is the obvious inspection of the nature of spirituality as opposed to religiousness: Can one completely deny supernatural deities, be purely non-superstitious, yet still be spiritual? The second route is to start with the question of filling the emptiness, or more simply finding meaning. But the third route is more timely, so stay tuned for Albert Einstein’s (virtual) commentary on good gadgets to give or get this holiday season.
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