The Human Condition Requires.......

The human condition requires that every man and woman jack (and Jill) of us is born subject to finite limitations in terms of biology, geography, culture, language, nationhood, history, race and so on, and, indeed, it is in these things that we often rejoice, take pleasure and find identity. The modern mind is high-minded in a way that sees these limitations as beneath it and to be miraculously transcended in some way. Such supposed transcendence is seen as a form of sophistication when really it is a refusal to accept what we are, as if we really have the power to engineer ourselves as something different.