Reading: September 3,2013

The word "Modernity" is scary, and that with this new future people are afraid that they are leaving behind hundreds of years of traditions and moving towards new ideas and practices that seem all to unfamiliar. In a world ruled by corporations and consumerism, we are forced to begin to understand how to cope with such large factors, and move back towards ancient traditions and practices that were once passed down from generations. "To be modern is to be a part of a universe where all that is solid melts into thin air"(Harvey 15). This to me means that everything that we once new and felt so strongly towards, is all leaving and we are left to blow in the wind wherever society and the "modern" leads us. "The maelestrom of modern life has been fed from many sources; great discoveries in the physical sciences, changing our images of the universe..."(15). Society and life today seems to be more proven and understood through facts and testing. We have a tighter grasp on how the world works, and everything from harmful cancer treatments, to diet, and controlling virus. Modernity is based on everything that we have learned in previous generations. We today are at the peak of our knowledge of the world. Our understandings of operation have excelled 1000% in the last millennia, and this is leading to the change in society.
"The argument of this book in fact is that in fact the modernisms of the past can give us back a sense of our own modern roots, roots that go back two hundred years. They can help us connect our life's with the lives of millions of people who are living through the trauma of modernization thousand miles away"(35)
We need to understand the future is changing through economic and social growth, but we can find out roots that have gotten us here in the past.