a sense of joy and then a panic

Well, I guess I have my own definition of modernity then, invented by my Japanese Monsters teacher. *shrug* I actually don't use modernity in everyday language because I think it's such a false term, I just say like, industrial age if that's what I mean. I totally fail as a classically-trained academic, but that's what you get when you don't study the Core. I just use the crisis of modernity because it seems to be the available term to describe Germany and Japan pre-WW II, but I could always come up with a new term to describe what I'm talking about. I like that it has modernity in it because that modernity is a false construct points to the crisis of modernity being a false construct.