Modernity
Modernity yields both progress and regress without necessary favor to either one.
Modernity is construction and destruction, sometimes alternately, sometimes simultaneously, sometimes...
Modernity doesn't necessarily mean better days ahead.
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Libido dominandi
Hypertrophic Modernity
Implied appeal to a sense of proportion, Proportional Modernity
Restraint in the face of extravagance
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Hypertrophy
Definitions
From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition:
noun A nontumorous enlargement of an organ or a tissue as a result of an increase in the size rather than the number of constituent cells.
intransitive & transitive verb To grow or cause to grow abnormally large.
From The Century Dictionary:
noun In pathology, an enlargement of a part of the body from excessive growth or multiplication of its elements; specifically, an enlargement due to growth of the individual elements, as distinguished from hyperplasia, where there is a multiplication of the cellular elements.
noun Figuratively, excessive growth or accumulation of any kind.
noun In botany, a general term for all cases of excessive growth and increased size in the organs of plants, whether the increase is general or in a single direction.
To become hypertrophous or enlarged from excessive nutrition.
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Modernity & Change
Modernity is change.
Individuation is the spark of instrumentalized technology, the essence of Modernity. The free body diagram is the avatar of individuation.
The more things change, the more they stay the same
The way to know your distinctiveness, copy your favorite artist as closely as you can. Inevitably, you will diverge. That's you.
The speed limit of change is its digestibility. Innovation that outstrips the societal capacity to incorporate it is a potential threat.
Posted by Dennis at October 25, 2023 8:41 AM
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