Atomization Quotes

“When man becomes the origin of morality, the external moral imperative, which traditionally tethered his actions to a standard outside himself, giving him an external and objective aim, evaporates into thin air. He has freedom, yes, but it is like being liberated from one's natural atmosphere, like being flung into space, or into a desert. You are free, you have become the autonomous source and measure of the good, and you may go whatever direction you like—but you find yourself in empty space, in an infinite vacuum: you can go anywhere, but there is nowhere to go, and so you are not really free.”
― Daniel Schwindt, The Case Against the Modern World: A Crash Course in Traditionalist Thought