The Signal Man (Modernity)

I like the analogy made by Dickens, when he illustrated modernity with a train. The train represents how fast modernity is arriving to the signalman’s life, even with the loneliness in the man’s life. I think that the train’s power is exactly the same one in modernity arrival, because it is very fast. Unfortunately, modernity is misunderstood. It is usually related to technological advances and not to people’s mind growing. Therefore, I also have fears about it. Modernity is not allowing people’s time to think about themselves and take a breath, rest and reflect on our own actions. Modern times consume us in their speed.

Is modernity considering a growing in mind? Are people understanding modernity? Modernity what for? If we think that evolution is a technological issue, I have to say that we are losing our focus in life. If so, I’m sure that there are more than thousand people frighten about modernity, as well as the signalman in the short story. How can we think about evolution, if we don’t have an evolution in mind before? Maybe the signalman was thinking about the same.