Status Updates From On Pain

"The secret of modern sensitivity is that it corresponds to a world in which the body is itself the highest value. This observation explains why modern
sensitivity relates to pain as a power to be avoided at all cost, because here pain confronts the body not as an outpost but as the main force and essential core of life."

Ancient and Christian understanding of the body as an outpost, a tool, to be used for a higher purpose and eventually destroyed. Modern understanding of the body as the end all be all of existence, therefore it must be protected at all costs.