Yet those ingenious people, running ceaselessly after so-called better lives, give little consideration to the environment vital to all of us. They seldom pay any attention to the night sky with no stars twinkling or the toxic stream water that was once clean and clear! They just do what they want to. It is quite paradoxical that man destroys his homeland while building it. There is difficulty in searching for a satisfactory explanation of this.

  Unlike remote villages cut off from civilization, modern cities have far more access to new lifestyles, thus are bound to be more tolerant and open-minded. But instead of making life meaningful, it only contributes to the depression and syndromes bothering most urban people. Working under high pressure, people spare no effort to plunge into competitions, struggling desperately for survival in the civilized society. While streets become busier than ever, tiredness and emptiness inside one’s heart seems increasingly growing. And impersonal relationship between one another definitely leads to indifference, distrust and suspicion.

  The process of modernization makes the material world even more selfish, and people, more sophisticated and dishonest. Perhaps this can be defined as evolution, in consequence of which man has achieved a higher living standard, but is impoverished in the mental world. It is no longer surprising if one discards many a thing he once treasured, such as friendship, integrity and prestige.

  Not content with what he’s obtained, man endeavors to acquire what he does not possess, either within or out of his reach. The impulse to get more drives him to grab whatever has the potential of being useful. While accelerating the growth of industry, it brings out the worst in human nature: greed, aggression, etc. This trend will probably give rise to not only the exhaustion of the natural resources, but also the breakdown of normal interpersonal relations.