Modern Western man’s alienation results from losing connection to an ethically ordered cosmos.

Evidence

Modernity is an inherently transgressive mode of being-in-the-vvorld. Visions of order are born out of disaffection with the existing state of affairs; while attempts to make such visions into flesh give birth to new disaffections and new, revised, and so deemed to be improved, visions. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 431 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modernity’s ending is the loss of belief in human control over existence. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 435; Loss of cultural belief leads to chaos and conflict. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 84; Humanity dethroned external nature yet failed to master or respect inner nature. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 325 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern visions of order generate the very disaffection they aim to cure #complicates (0.74) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 431