Why No One Cares When Men Fall Apart

Autumn is here again. And in every leaf that falls softly to the ground, there’s a story that ends, a reminder that everything on this earth has an expiration date. The falling leaf is us. It’s humanity. But unlike the leaf, we’ve forgotten that we, too, will one day fall.

We rush through life as if it were infinite. We throw away the water and drink the glass.We peel an orange and eat the rind. We pick flowers and never look at them. We waste beauty, meaning, and time, and we don’t even notice. Most of us won’t, not today, not tomorrow, not even when life is over.

We talk about progress, comfort, and freedom. But we’ve traded awareness for automation, spirit for speed, truth for entertainment. Living consciously is no longer a goal — it’s an inconvenience. Prayer, reflection, silence… these have become strange words in a world addicted to noise. Yet those are the only things that can keep a human being from collapsing into total alienation.

The modern world has shaped us, and broken us. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the bourgeois mind was defined by greed: the urge to accumulate, exploit, and dominate. Centuries later, nothing has changed, we’ve just given it new names. Productivity. Success. Efficiency.

We’ve become perfect consumers: we buy, we scroll, we swallow whatever we’re fed. We don’t question anything. Not the products, not the leaders, not even the lies. The modern man is a well-fed infant, forever waiting for something to satisfy him, forever disappointed when it doesn’t.

If we’re not consuming, we’re trading. If we’re not working, we’re posting. If we’re not producing, we’re pretending. Men and women have been turned into obedient machines, trained from childhood to “collaborate,” to fit in, to perform. Parents have been replaced by institutions; conscience replaced by rules; truth replaced by consensus.

The “ideal citizen” today is easy to manage: compliant, efficient, endlessly available. He doesn’t need chains, he’s programmed to obey. That’s the new definition of the alienated man.

And the alienated man is exactly the one who throws away the water and drinks the glass. Who peels the orange and eats the rind. Who picks flowers but can’t even name what he’s holding.

So what can we expect from the future? Maybe the slow collapse of industrial civilization. Maybe a return to the soil, the dust, the primitive. Or maybe just more of the same — more machines, more consumption, more emptiness. The systems that feed on human alienation will not stop. And the robots? They won’t rebel. They don’t have to. We’ve already become them.

This is how the “modern man” dies: quietly, unknowingly. Like a leaf that falls without ever realizing it was once alive. He doesn’t live. He functions. He produces. He obeys.

And in the end, he believes in everything, except himself.

“The life of this world is nothing but play and amusement. But the Hereafter is far better for those who are mindful. Will you not then understand?”— Surah Al-An’am 6:32

This verse perfectly captures the emptiness of modern life devoted only to consumption and pleasure — a warning that true meaning lies beyond material success

“And do not be like those who forgot Allah, so He made them forget themselves. They are the defiantly disobedient.”— Surah Al-Hashr 59:19

This is perhaps the most direct Qur’anic commentary on human alienation: when people disconnect from the divine, they lose their own identity and essence.

“Competition for more [wealth and children] diverts you, until you visit the graves.”— Surah At-Takathur 102:1–2

 This verse is brutally clear: mankind’s obsession with accumulation blinds him to mortality — just like the modern man who “functions” but never truly lives.

“They have hearts with which they do not understand, eyes with which they do not see, and ears with which they do not hear. They are like cattle — rather, more astray.”— Surah Al-A‘raf 7:179

 A haunting image of spiritual blindness — people who are alive biologically but dead inside, disconnected from truth and awareness.