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-[[File:Modernism.jpg|450px|thumb|center|It’s good this Communism lark isn’t it?]]
+[[File:Modernism.jpg|450px|thumb|center|It’s good this Communism lark, isn’t it?]]
-}}A 20th-century cultural movement encompassing design, art, literature, architecture, town planning and ultimately government that sought to break entirely from the western cultural tradition, instead creating something new, rational, abstract, utopian and independent of the historical contingencies and [[narrative]]s which got ''homo sapiens'' to the twentieth century, but which the thinkers of the early 20th century concluded were mistaken: principally, religion, religious morality and the social structures that depend on it.
+}}{{d|Modernism|/ˈmɒdənɪzm/|n|}}
+A 20th-century cultural movement encompassing design, art, literature, architecture, town planning and ultimately government that sought to break entirely from the western cultural tradition, instead creating something new, rational, abstract, utopian and independent of the historical contingencies and [[narrative]]s which got ''homo sapiens'' to the twentieth century, but which the thinkers of the early 20th century concluded were mistaken: principally, religion, religious morality and the social structures that depend on it.
 Modernism was the urge to wipe the slate clean. Its premise was — ''is'', alas —that the legacy narrative  — angels, devils, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords etc — was so broken, so profoundly ''disproved'' that it was best to just ditch it wholesale and start the process fresh, from the ground up.