ABSTRACT
Acceptance and the antimodern condition itself, is based upon one overriding concern: what matters for us is home. The antimodern condition is a statement against progress and the idea of human perfectibility. It is profoundly anti-utopian in that it rejects the idea that people should sacrifice the present in favour of the future. The accepted and habitual ways of behaving lead us to believe that there is a common culture of which we are a part. A natural consequence of modernity destroys our connections with others, reducing them to mere elements of critique, as heretics, outsiders, non-humans. The key problem with modernity is that it forces us always to look forwards and never to accept where we are now. But the failure that naturally follows creates a sense of anxiety. Thus we can say that anxiety is the symbol of modernity.
