? Eliot claims that man is facing a tremendous flood of meaninglessness for the first time. Everything seems to be utterly insignificant, and the reason is simple: without God there can be no significance, no splendor. Life can have meaning only in the context of something that surpasses life. The meaning always comes from the context; now man stands without a context. The meaning comes only when you can look upwards to something bigger than you, something greater than you. When you feel related with something greater, holier, your life has meaning. Man has left nature and has created an artificial world of his own. This fact has been the most shattering phenomenon which has disrupted man from God and all that is implied in God: meaning, significance, majesty, love, prayer, meditation, and all that is valuable. The irony is, man has never been so rich as he is today. Both things have happened together: the inner, spiritual being has become poorer while the outer being has become richer. We have more money than any other society before, we have in every way more power than any other society ever had before, and still no society has ever felt such meaninglessness. Eliot thinks that we have cultivated reason too much and we have become lopsided. Science functions from the head while religion functions from the heart. Because we have become too obsessed with the head we think that is all there is. As we become more and more hung up in the head, we become more and more oblivious to the existence of the heart, and Eliot thinks that we will become more and more miserable. T. S. Eliot is right: "... something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left God not for other gods..." That was very usual in the past; people used to move from one god to another. That was an evolution. The God of Moses is less sophisticated than the God of Jesus, since there are thousands of years b...
