Modernity - The change of a lifetime!

Modernity is a "paradoxical unity, a unity of disunity" (Berman, 1988, p. 15). To go through modernity, to become modern is regarded as a scintillating experience, however it is an experience involving change. Change is an inherent part of modernity. This transformation of state and its consequences elicit different reactions from different people. Some of these include liberation and exhilaration, but also disparaging corollaries such as terror, dread and a sense of loss and estrangement. Modernism "creates new human environments and destroys old ones" (Berman, 1988, p. 16) entailing shif…