The year of 1945 was an unalloyed triumph for modernity thanks to Allied big science's A-bomb decisively defeating the pre-modernity Axis.
But 1945 was also the start of post-modernity (and hence the start of the decline of the hegemony of modernity).
Because millions of people worldwide were repulsed by what the Modernity Project had done during the war - at Auschwitz , Katyn Forest and Hiroshima - and so had begun looking for ways wherein humanity worked with Mother Nature, rather than sought total control over her....
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