#modern

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#expense #joke #other #postmodernism #revolutionary

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#charleston #dance #day #ended #fast

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#modern #modern society #now #our #society

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. ↗

— Franz Boas

#bane #civilization #disease #distrust #modern

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts. ↗

— David Bohm

#air travel #almost #communication #contact #decades

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#arouse #belief #goal #longer #modern

The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms - human rights, sexual freedom, political liberty, freedom to choose in many spheres. On the other hand, many of its most intelligent members have not believed that people are free at all, and have devoted great efforts to show that really we are the product of our genes, our unconscious drives, our education, economic pressures, or other forms of conditioning. ↗

— David F. Ford

#freedom #modernity #paradox #education

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag. ↗

— Robert Englund

#gag #horror #lets #modern #our

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience. ↗

— Brian Eno

#composers #experience #find #increasingly #likely

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#build #builders #carelessly #cheaply #eventually