We appear to live in a time that has witnessed the absolute failure of the grand Enlightenment dreams of linear progress, universal peace, and equality between rich and poor. Together with widespread hostility to organized religion, manifested in such hugely popular books as Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion , disappointment with social ideals means that we turn inward.
我们似乎生活在一个见证了启蒙运动的直线进步、世界和平以及富人和穷人之间平等的梦想彻底破灭的时代。与对有组织宗教的广泛的敌意——这种敌意表现在像理查德·道金斯（Richard Dawkins）的《上帝的错觉》这样极受欢迎的作品中——一起，对社会理想的失望意味着我们转向内在的东西。由于缺乏对永生的信仰，所有的东西都变成了应该被用于今生，这个身体。