Modernism
Modernism noun - Practices typical of contemporary life or thought.
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Progress and modernism are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Progress" instead a noun "Modernism".
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Post-modernism rejected progress for progress's sake, which is a favorite motivation for a Science Hero, and allowed a resurgence of Science Is Bad, Nature Hero, and Rock Beats Laser.
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It was natural, and almost inevitable, that people who had suffered through the war (and the preceding Great Depression) would question the ideals of perpetual progress inherent in modernism, and that would lead to a philosophy of questioning everything in general.
Source: Postmodernism
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