Why have so many philosophers since the days of the ancient Greek philosophers not had a lot to say about the nature of being? Is it the idea that so much more a focus has been placed on the actual actions and life of an individual as opposed to the nature of reality? Even before postmodernism opened up the doors for complete moral relativism and subjectivity, the world of philosophy was unfocused on the escaping idea of what is truly underneath our perceptions. The rise of science has had a large influence on what people believe and the desire for people to look past the knowledge that is given to them and wonder what exactly we can know for sure. Some on the ancient Greeks contemplated things about the world that were not proven for over two thousand years, like the idea of tiny elements that made up the world that were called atoms by people like Democritus. Ideas like this are no longer really found except for people who are on the cutting edge of research of science. The world has been deconstructed by the scientists and people who were once seen as the great minds of their time, like the ancient Greeks, are now looked down upon and the mysteries that they once uncovered and wondered about are swept aside by computers and people who no longer care about the underlying reality of the world we live in.