Sometimes we wonder if we can ever get back. We try and we try but the best we can do leaves us short. Tournier, p.110 Modern Western Society is dominated and governed by noise, newspapers, radio, and speed,so that people have lost the sense of inner meditation, of mature reflection, and thoughtful action. But all of this feverish activity is also a form of flight, by means of which men are trying to cover up the unease in their hearts, their spiritual emptiness, their defeats, and their rebellion. People get lost from God, and reality at the same time.
Many people have their eyes turned constantly backward.
They relive their God Age. In this way they try to escape the problems of the present. There is flight into the future. Constantly making plans which they will never complete. A flight of ideas.