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Portrait of a broken society

"The only thing worthwhile in life is beauty, and the satisfaction of the senses. " This is the beginning approximately one of the great classics of Western literature, The Picture of Dorian Gray , written in 1895 irreplaceable by Oscar Wilde. This assertion, frivolous and horrify anyone in our time by the emptiness of its content, is the trigger for Dorian wants to stay forever in the age at which he was portrayed. Put another way, is an evocation capital to narcissism.

I find it interesting that the novel, more than a century, copper today more relevant than ever. Because if it is true that this superficiality that showed the character of Lord Henry to pronounce these words will be politically incorrect, it is equally true that it is a reflection of our society, the postmodern. I always said that Wilde was a visionary in all aspects, someone ahead of its time, so the conservative Victorian society in which he lived was so mean to him. Returning

the present, today, we are narcissists. Perhaps we always were, because Ovid in his Metamorphoses, spoke of the myth of Narcissus. But in contrast to other eras, we are so exaggeratedly materialistic, not only with ourselves but with our surroundings, our lives we seem to have been designed to achieve immediately from things that provide pleasure. Hedonism, narcissism, materialism ... All that ends in ism suffix indicates a strong inclination towards something. It does not seem bad at all if it involves the welfare of the individual and therefore society. But how we reached this point where we have been brought, or so it seems, so that only the aesthetic and the material we produce pleasure? The beauty, things ... are ephemeral ... What will happen when the dissipation time? We will not have anything. And then? If our society is so broken, as Nietzsche predicted, we are doomed to failure, isolation, ostracism emotional. Or think of that directory can not get all that our postmodern society requires us to be necessary for success: beauty, money, technology, brand clothes, a nice car, have done a master, a body 10, living in a high area pisazo ... then comes frustration, guilt, self-punishment. Never had so many people depressed, without expectation or disoriented and in this era of postmodernism. Remember how it ended

Dorian Gray. Broke after a thorough psychological collapse. He believed himself was admired above all things, because that was what the preciousness of the time suggested. But if you really would have admired, would have dared to look at his portrait in time ...