ABSTRACT
Modernity is painful and modern life is demanding. e categories cut, the personal restlessness never ends, the accounting and accountability are oppressive, the drive for prots is corrosive, extracting property from nature is destroying the planet, despotism seems just as resilient as democracy, secularists battle with spiritual believers, technologies alienate as well as give pleasure, racial hatred abounds, women are subject to violence, robots replace workers, people use mobile technology to blow themselves up in crowds of strangers, and time moves on anyhow. So, modern people want to get out, opt out-escape.
