You’re using an outdated browser, which YouTube no longer supports. Some features on YouTube may not work.And I am prompted to wonder: did browsers exist before the m..odern age? Indeed, what would a non-modern browser be like?
Please upgrade to a modern browser.
Of course, the word "modern" has become the default word for a variety of things. It means "up to date" or "of the latest", usually, though now it carries connotations of "good," "acceptable," "approved," and so forth. If you're not modern, you're hopelessly out of date. And there's no such thing as being out of date in a good way--some things may be saved by being classic, but heaven help us if you're traditional or unchanging. That's rigid and reactionary.
Why are things that have just happened necessarily better than things which happened years ago? Isn't this an elevation of the fashionable to the level of the be all and end all, under a different name?
As Chesterton said, "My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday." - New York Times Magazine, 2/11/23
This chronological snobbery must end.
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