Modernity has brought with itself a craving for entertainment. Since the turn of the 20th century, technological advances in fields such as audio and video recording meddled with the already present western proclivity for theater and music.
Read MoreThe fundamentalist/modernist controversy of the early 1900s is a significant recent event in Western (especially American) Church History. However, not many people seem to know much about it. The controversy and its ramifications will be briefly explained….The fundamentalists of the early 1900s are to be praised for their insistence on biblical authority and for their commitment to make biblical education more readily available. Nonetheless, like most generally positive movements or philosophies, there have been negative consequences.
Read MoreC.S. Lewis, in his work The Abolition of Man, spoke against modernist education. He declared that modernism would breed men without chests – people so concerned with the scientific that they failed to cultivate virtue and thus gave into their most base desires. It seems today that society is plagued with both chest-less men and men with too much chest. The chest-less modernists have given rise to the all-too-chesty postmodernists.
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Our federal buildings, in being reflective of our values, should concurrently reflect the desire of the people, in a republican (read, democratized) nation. In this way, modernist buildings are antithetical to the voting public’s wishes. Unfortunately, we cannot vote for good architecture.
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