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80-90's retro art and culture, soaked in nostalgia and longing, is popping up everywhere. In 1994 Vaclav Havel gave a speech that sheds light on why this is happening, and what people are aching for. He said: "Today, for instance, we may know immeasurably more about the..."
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"universe than our ancestors did, and yet, it increasingly seems they knew something more essential about it than we do, something that escapes us. The same thing is true of nature and of ourselves. The more thoroughly all our organs and their functions, their internal..."
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"structure and the biochemical reactions that take place within them are described, the more we seem to fail to grasp the spirit, purpose and meaning of the system that they create together and that we experience as our unique "self." And thus today we find ourselves..."
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"in a paradoxical situation. We enjoy all the achievements of modern civilization that have made our physical existence on this earth easier in so many important ways. Yet we do not know exactly what to do with ourselves, where to turn. The world of our experiences seems..."
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"chaotic, disconnected, confusing. There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us yet we understand our own lives less and less..."
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"In short, we live in the post-modern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certainβ