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The Change Of Modernism In The 21st Century

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Modernism is the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change. It is more than just a time period, or a particular geographical happening. It is something grander and more strange than that, irreducible to singular coordinates. It is the story of human growth, with its continual changes in form and meaning. And it is a story of acceleration. Modernity, as a whole, is a reactive force-a reaction of comparisons and contractions to that which existed before. Modernism is never complete. Every other day, the world is getting more modern than yesterday. The rate of change of modernity has greatly increased. The change in modernism in the past 20 years might be more than its change from the start of the world to 1990’s. Two of the most noteworthy things that compel mankind to call the world today ‘a modern …show more content…

The young generations do not believe that there was a time when people used to roam freely about in the city. Things have changed so much that instead of moving forward, we have to take backward steps. Just a few years ago, the city usually remained crowded and seeing the deserted streets makes me doubt that more than 20 million people live in this city. People used to move around the city with no tension or fear of anything but today, whenever we are out of our homes; we do not know that we will reach our homes safely. Crime rates have increased so much lately, that there might have be only a few people in Karachi who have never been caught by these criminal acts. Stealing is even quite bearable, but there is a group of people called the “Na Maloom Afraad (the unknown people)” who kills innocent citizens for no reason. Herds of people are killed in suicide bombings occurring regularly throughout Pakistan. Street fights are more common and people have more enemies than friends. There is a call for strike every fortnight or

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