to something else. Being called “modern” was a compliment. It meant we were contemporary and on the cutting edge. But there is mounting evidence that the cutting edge has moved. Modernity was birthed in the Renaissance, as human reason reigned supreme, and was crowned in Enlightenment culture. Modern Western culture was sustained by a sublime confidence in the human mind’s abilities to question ideologies and explain all of life. Human progress was seen as the inevitable outcome of asking the right