To be modern
- Oct. 8th, 2008 at 11:17 PM
"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."
Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, as quoted in the film Joy Division
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