Behind all the progress it has brought, modernism has been found to have problems with the wholeness of the world’s life and all its contents, especially about nature. The understanding that man is the subject of consciousness has had a harmful effect on everything. Modernism impacts the destruction of the balance of the order of creation. (Emanuel Wora).
Its looks elegant and sturdy with all the sophistication and convenience that modernism offers has a significant influence on the development of human life in the world. Although humans as subjects are aware and can know all the facts with their ratios, able to judge something and always be the centre of knowledge, this era is plunging humans into a life crisis that is complex and global in nature.
Many of them are experiencing disorientation or loss of direction. Although no doubt, they make the world their way of life, even their way of life is aimed at the world alone. This happened because of the influence of secularization and the philosophy of pragmatism which had long dwelt in their souls.
Meanwhile, science and technology, which are considered the driving force for the modernization process, are causing humanity’s increasing hedonism and pragmatism. Instead of science and technology giving humanity abundant blessings in the form of material convenience and broadening the horizons of their minds, they get anxiety which is marked by the erosion of human attention to spiritual and ethical. The spirit of modernity slowly eroded the values of truth, honour, and ethics that had once been the strong fortress of every great civilization.
Modern Society Life
Since the opening of the faucet of rational thought by Rene Descartes (1595-1650) with the statement Cogito Ergo Sum (I think therefore I am), it marks a new chapter in the history of human civilization, which is often called the renaissance (modern) era. This era was born as an enlightener and liberator (antithesis) from the hegemony of previous thought (The Church dogma).