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The Curse of “Liquid” Modernity
Do you ever feel like you’re constantly catching smoke? Like every solid ground you try to build upon—a career, a relationship, even your own sense of self—seems to dissipate just as you lay the first brick? You’re not alone. This pervasive sense of instability, this anxious, endless transition, is the hallmark of our era. It’s the world Zygmunt Bauman, the Polish sociologist, sought to explain with his profoundly influential concept of “liquid modernity.”
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