“One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.” PeopleTogetherSocialModernLosingHappeningsDestructiveNightmareCollapseModern Society Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“You got to do what's happening today in the world. You got to keep up with time. Keep up to date, keep modern - keep up on your toes!” WorldTodayModernHappeningsToesUp To Date Author:Jack LaLanne
“Modern thinking is that time did not start with the big bang, and that there was a multiverse even before the big bang. In the inflation theory, and in string theory, there were universes before our big bang, and that big bangs are happening all the time. Universes are formed when bubbles collide or fission into smaller bubles.” ThinkingBigsUniverseModernTheoryHappeningsStringsBubblesInflationBangsCollideMultiverseString TheoryFission Author:Michio Kaku
“I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.” ImaginationFictionModernPlanetsHappeningsMy Imagination Author:Andrew Bird
“Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.” IfsCultureCausesRealizingPlansModernHappeningsTragedyStrategyWarningAdoptedModern Culture Author:William McDonough
“Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a way into something important happening in modern-day culture.” WayImportantCultureModernBecomingHappeningsOptimismModern DayCandide Author:Mark Ravenhill
“I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative is that whatever is happening in the reality of America, where there is a murder rate worse than Lebanon's and where there is so much homelessness and poverty, still America will be a shorthand throughout the world for everything that is young and modern and free.” ThinkingWorldStillsDifferentRealityAmericaYoungNationsPovertyModernHappeningsMurderNotionRateSymbolsTouchingHomelessnessLebanonShorthand Author:Pico Iyer
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society... Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.” PeopleWayGivingMeanStatesHappensIndividualSocialFictionImagineSocietyModernConditionsSubjectsEffectsDrugDepressionHappeningsScience FictionToleranceTerroristUnhappyInternalsRemoveUnhappinessIntoleranceTolerateDepressingMathematicianAnarchistNot HappyModern SocietySocial ConditionsUnhappy PeopleAntidepressantsModifying Author:Theodore Kaczynski