To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world-and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.

Marshall Berman

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

 To be modern is to live a life of paradox and contradiction. It is to be overpowered by the immense bureaucratic organizations that have the power to control and often to destroy all communities, values, lives; and yet to be undeterred in our determination to face these forces, to fight to change the world and make it our own.

Marshall Berman

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

 If we think of modernism as a struggle to make ourselves at home in a constantly changing world, we will realize that no mode of modernism can ever be definitive. Our most creative constructions and achievements are bound to turn into prisons and whited sepulchers that we, or our children, will have to escape or transform if life is to go on.

Marshall Berman

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

 All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. 

Karl Marx

 all that is solid melts into air.

 Five years on and we get tired of dreading the invasion of the park—we just want to get down there with the sound suits and convulse with the drums of solstice joy.

 Happy summer solstice. And by the way, happy fathers day.