Folks not living in the past

Usage examples of moderns.

Or, to place it in a clear light, we moderns are to the antients what the poor are to the rich.

The magical-animistic structure, as lovely as it might appear to us jaded moderns, was not an integration of the biosphere and the noosphere, because these had not yet been differentiated in the first place.

And thus it is small wonder that, in these ecologically disastrous times, many moderns are attempting to resurrect the natural wisdom of tribal awareness more attuned with the biosphere.