“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.”
Modernity is defined as a shared experience of behaving, thinking and working in the modern world whereas Modernization refers to the economic and political factors that contribute to new forms of corporate power and class struggle. “It seeks the violent overthrow of all our values, and cares little about reconstructing the worlds it destroys.” Berman describes the word modern as a maelstrom; maelstrom serves to emphasize the dramatic changes and transformations that are occurring in plain sight. He continues to express that the modern life men and women may seek pleasure and enjoyment can also destroy everything they are and have. Tradition and modern culture are at variance with each other because each serves its own selfish purpose. Tradition is the practice of people who died that has been passed down to continue its survival, Berman rationalizes this as the cult of the Dead. However, modern culture can be of nourishment to ongoing life if people can refine their own modernity. The maelstrom or state of turbulence and uncertainty is where the modern discernment is established.
I chose to talk about this quote because in a society where technology is developing day by day, the “modern” world as we know it is always changing. What was modern to us yesterday will be old-fashioned to us tomorrow. The twentieth century is most definitely the most innovative period in history, as opposed to the centuries prior.
Modernity is defined as a shared experience of behaving, thinking and working in the modern world whereas Modernization refers to the economic and political factors that contribute to new forms of corporate power and class struggle. “It seeks the violent overthrow of all our values, and cares little about reconstructing the worlds it destroys.” Berman describes the word modern as a maelstrom; maelstrom serves to emphasize the dramatic changes and transformations that are occurring in plain sight. He continues to express that the modern life men and women may seek pleasure and enjoyment can also destroy everything they are and have. Tradition and modern culture are at variance with each other because each serves its own selfish purpose. Tradition is the practice of people who died that has been passed down to continue its survival, Berman rationalizes this as the cult of the Dead. However, modern culture can be of nourishment to ongoing life if people can refine their own modernity. The maelstrom or state of turbulence and uncertainty is where the modern discernment is established.
I chose to talk about this quote because in a society where technology is developing day by day, the “modern” world as we know it is always changing. What was modern to us yesterday will be old-fashioned to us tomorrow. The twentieth century is most definitely the most innovative period in history, as opposed to the centuries prior.
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