You cannot turn your back on today's technological culture (and the
western philosophy which lies behind it) and ignore it, but you can
study it without feelings of inferiority, and judge or condemn it - as
is your right - not for its few good things, but on the points which
have effectively convinced you, after serious study, that this
civilization as it now stands constitutes a deadly threat to the
possibility of living an acceptable life, to that which in ancient
philosophy, we say it for one last time, was seen as man's ultimate
aim, and which it called the best life.

- Zissimos Lorenzatos, Second Notebook 1975