Is Modernity the Cause of Modernity?

"Authenticity and the quest for authenticity is essentially a quest for meaning trying to fill that giant hole that modernity has created in the human soul," he says. "And so what do you do if modernity is the cause of that hole Well, then likeWhat do you do? We can't fill it with authenticity." He adds: "Perhaps it is time to rehabilitate the very idea of progress not the blind conviction that things are getting better all the time"