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To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

Vine Deloria,Jr. (1971). “Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto”

Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.

L. K. Samuels, Thomas Szasz, Douglas Casey, Brian Clelland, David Friedman (2017). “Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer”, p.34, BookBaby

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

1966 Against Interpretation,'Camus' Notebooks'.

Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.

Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.276, Open Road Media

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

"Immanence and Transcendence" by Gérard Genette, 1997.

We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.

Vaclav Havel's Liberty Medal acceptance speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.aps.org. October 4, 1994.