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

  • -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb 纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布

现代性:我们创造了没有英雄主义的青春,没有智慧的老年,没有宏伟壮丽的人生。

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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

现代性是短暂的、瞬息万变的、偶然的,构成了艺术的一半,而另一半则是永恒的、不可改变的。这一瞬息万变、瞬息万变的因素决不能轻视或忽视。

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

当国家与现代化作斗争时,落后的人们往往对现代化的罪恶持有越来越坚定的看法。