"Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur."
— Modernity

January 1, 1970

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ModernityHistoriographyPostmodern theoryModernismHistorical eras
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Sources

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010) Chance, Success, Happiness, and Stoicism, p. 27.