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{{a|philosophy|}}A 20th century cultural movement encompassing design, art, literature, architecture, town planning and ultimately government that sought to break entirely from the traditional western cultural narrative and instead create something new, rational, abstract, utopian and not dependent on the historical cultural contingencies and narratives which got us ''to'' the twentieth century and which the thinkers of the early 20th century concluded were mistaken: principally, religion, and the social structures that depend on it. | {{a|philosophy| | ||
[[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 traditional western cultural narrative and instead create something new, rational, abstract, utopian and not dependent on the historical cultural contingencies and narratives which got us ''to'' the twentieth century and which the thinkers of the early 20th century concluded were mistaken: principally, religion, and the social structures that depend on it. | |||
But moving away from that big idea — and all the little ones that had evolved in its ecosystem — meant substituting it with a new one, and both the “big ideas” of the early twentieth century — communism and fascism — though utopian and highly modernist in disposition, descended quickly into horror. The heyday of modernism was 1914-1945 — history buffs might note something familiar about those two dates — and so modernism’s track record didn’t really live up to its billing: one machine age, two hot world wars and the start of a cold one, two dominant political ideologies that murdered a hundred million people between them, and if that wasn’t enough, an enormous, decade-long recession in between the two wars. | But moving away from that big idea — and all the little ones that had evolved in its ecosystem — meant substituting it with a new one, and both the “big ideas” of the early twentieth century — communism and fascism — though utopian and highly modernist in disposition, descended quickly into horror. The heyday of modernism was 1914-1945 — history buffs might note something familiar about those two dates — and so modernism’s track record didn’t really live up to its billing: one machine age, two hot world wars and the start of a cold one, two dominant political ideologies that murdered a hundred million people between them, and if that wasn’t enough, an enormous, decade-long recession in between the two wars. | ||