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— Ernest Gellner"America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it."
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The promises of modernity regarding progress, freedom and hope have not been eliminated; they have been reconfigured, stripped of their emancipatory potential and relegated to the logic of a savage market instrumentality.
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