Modernism

This is my first post on this blog and I'd like to start off on a broad topic that keeps to the content motto this blog is dedicated to.

To begin with, I'd like to clearly define what I mean by modernism and how much the meaning of that term means to me. Modernism is not just a synonym of change, it must necessarily be a synonym of progress. Progress that merely touches a life and moves on by itself is only an illusion and a dangerous one, at that. Real progess is one that breathes three things : prosperity, altruism, and modernism.

There have been many versions of modernism. Some see the entire term as illusionary, coined by some bloke who obviously had nothing better to do. To them, all I'd like to say is this : Get a life. You have been blind to change around you. The rare ones embrace modernism as a supernatural phenomenon, instigated by God - over which they have no control. The rarer ones see modernism as an intangible, involuntary act that THEY initiate in their lives.

The modern thinker has a fourth dimension of thought. He sees modernism as a step into a new set of challenges. The bedrock of such a school of thought is based on an irrefutable underlying fact : as long as there is life on this planet, there will be problems to solve. For instance, removal of world hunger is a principal challenge that face the modern thinker. World hunger, to the modern thinker, is a by product of man's irresponsibility in the past. It is, therefore, neither a supernatural nor a separately instigated man made problem. However, in the light of changed circumstances, where altruistic forces are relatively smaller as compared to the shrewd ones, the approach to solving an old age problem like world hunger must necessarily be influenced by modernism, to either abolish / find a long term solution to world hunger.

To sum it up and introduce the topic of modernism, and to encourage a constructive debate on modernism, one must remember a simple thing : There is nothing new in the world. The only changes you see are because of modernism. Modernism is you. You are modernism.