"Modernity: a way of drowning in nothingness."
(Abdal Hakim Murad)

"Modernity: the absolutization of the transient."
(Seyyed Hossein Nasr)

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The ontological problem of modernity is essentially the problem of meaning. Secular-modernity, as it first rose in the modern West and then exported and implanted in the non-West, is a perennially dry sponge that sucks out essential meaning from man---from that meaning-seeking creature par excellence---nay, from life itself, and leaves us totally drained, half-dead---much like the zombies in contemporary post-apocalypse dystopian movies.

Boredom and anomie.

Alienation and anxiety.

Depression and spiritual listlessness.

All hallmarks of the modern existential landscape.