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surfing liquid modernity

David Milne, Black, 1914 We don’t have a word for the irreparable breakdown of meaningful narratives in modern society yet but I’m trying to find it. Or a word to describe the death throes of the American dream. I’m rereading The White Album—again and again those lines, “You are getting a woman who for some time now has felt radically separated from most of the ideas that seem to interest other people. You are getting a woman who somewhere along the line misplaced whatever slight faith she ever had in the social contract, in the meliorative principle in the whole grand pattern of human…

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