No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.
You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.