To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world—and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are. To be modern is to be part of a universe in which, as Marx said, “all that is solid melts into air.”
MARSHALL BERMAN, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
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