ABSTRACT
Modernity is as much a state of mind as it is a material condition. It can most neatly be understood as a transformative ethic that has as its engine pushing it forwards and outwards the positivistic and economistic rationalism that is capitalism. With capitalism as its engine, modernity seeks a progressive and linear transformation of the human experience into a rationally and reflexively ordered life-scape that can be proactively controlled and manipulated for the purposes of providing an ever more comfortable, fulfilling, liberating, challenging, and complex life for its human subjects.
