When Baudelaire describes modernity and the modern city, one phrase, in particular, stood out to me, and reads
I have remarked that every age had its own gait, glance and gesture.
In this case, I feel that this is one of the biggest points that carries over to my own life experiences. Just this weekend, when I was out to lunch with my mother and her parents for my birthday, the subject of non-binary genders and pronouns came up around the table. My mother called it a “non-issue for [Katie’s] generation, something that just was“, even though it made my grandparents visibly uncomfortable. I feel that this is something that carries from
I feel that this is something that carries over remarkably well from Baudelaire’s 19th-century perspective. This is how people my age approach things that make the older generations feel uncomfortable in their world. His opinions on modernity shape how I’ll approach any experience that New York has in store for me and how I have to see everyday life when we return.
