The innate dynamism of the modern economy, and of the culture that grows from this economy, annihilates everything that it creates - physical environments, social institutions, metaphysical ideas, artistic visions, moral values - in order to create more, to go on endlessly creating the world anew. This drive draws all modern men and women into its orbit, and forces us all to grapple with the question of what is essential, what is meaningful, what is real, in the maelstrom in which we live.
Marshall Berman, All That is Solid Melts into Air
The First Letter
