As a Millennial, I've grown up in a postmodern society...yet I don't resonate with postmodernism.
When I read the works of modernists, I am struck with a nostalgia of sorts. Despite their cynicism, they seem more honest, sincere, innocent than most people today. They speak to my heart more than any postmodernist has ever done.
After all, the modernists were raised by Victorians. They had a Romantic past to look back to wistfully, even if they knew they could never return to that more innocent time. In contrast, Millennials have the 20th century to look back to...a century that many of us would rather forget.
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