JE66 Better Things?

            The quotation “men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things” can be considered a criticism for the modern period. People now often do things for self-motivation, but often for selfish reasons. Now we study hard because we want to go to a good college and get a good job and earn a lot of money in the future. It is not a bad thing. However, majority’s motivation is for his or her own future, but not for the future of the society. Before the Modern Period, the romantics do things based on intuition instead of thinking about possible consequences. Many of the romantics tried to be heroes to make the society better. However, during the Modern period, and nowadays, people mostly do things for their own benefits. In the modern age, it seems like people are doing better jobs because of the advance in technology the growth of population around the world, but the idea of heroism and justice might start to fade away because people started to care how to take care of their own future and how to compete in the society. Although modern age is essential to well-developed modern societies, meanwhile some valuable ideas may be forgotten.