Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world. - Daniel Bell

Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon.

If the language of art is not accessible to ordinary language and ordinary experience, how can it be accessible to ordinary people?

Nihilism, then, is the end process of rationalism. It is man's self conscious will to destroy his past and control his future. It is modernity at its extreme.