Nico on Modernity
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βThe modern soul is a lunar landscape.β
βTo be unaware of the putrefaction of the modern world is a symptom of contagion by it.β
βModern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma.β
βModern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road βchange.β The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense. The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man.β