{"id":45,"date":"2018-09-17T15:55:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/?p=45"},"modified":"2018-09-17T15:55:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:55:36","slug":"the-fundamental-lack-of-modernity-in-the-modern-world-and-how-they-coexist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/uncategorized\/the-fundamental-lack-of-modernity-in-the-modern-world-and-how-they-coexist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fundamental Lack of Modernity in the Modern World and How They Coexist"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a world where communication is becoming practically instantaneous regardless of physical location, any entity that claims to be modern must be a part of that global connection. However, even in a supposedly thriving metropolises of modernity like the U.S. there are entire communities without access to broadband internet. Can a person who has never traveled beyond the ten mile radius of their small town really be considered a part of the modern world? How could they not, though, when they regularly consume products and knowledge manufactured thousands of miles away? Thus, I feel that maybe the concepts of modernity and pre-modernity can coexist within the same community or even the same individual.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such is the case in Lerner\u2019s \u201cThe Grocer and the Chief\u201d in which the grocer, is seen to be capable of and even eager to embrace the cultures found outside of Balgat, yet never lives to see anything beyond his rural, secluded life. On the other hand, the chief, who has the more stereotypically \u201ctraditional\u201d views and is content with his small life in his little village is the one who comes to be living in a modern city with radios and haberdasheries and buses. Both characters are distinctly modern, and yet, distinctly lack a fundamental aspect of modernity. Although they are presented as opposites in the beginning of the essay, it is through such a lens that they are revealed to be fundamentally the same, in their equally modern and pre-modern worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a world where communication is becoming practically instantaneous regardless of physical location, any entity that claims to be modern must be a part of that global connection. However, even in a supposedly thriving metropolises of modernity like the U.S. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2007,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-we-moderns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}