Modernity arrives as instability made normal. Institutions that once lasted for centuries become temporary, and change turns into the baseline.
Older communities weaken. Extended families, villages, guilds, and religious networks lose authority, replaced by markets and the state. Individuals gain freedom to move, choose work, and reinvent identity, but they lose much of the thick support that local bonds provided.
New imagined communities rise: nations, corporations, professions, and consumer cultures. People who will never meet still feel connected, because they share schooling, rituals, media, and mass products.
The permanent revolution is powered by a promise: tomorrow can be redesigned. Yet it also produces anxiety and constant comparison. The modern world offers choice, but it demands adaptation. Stability becomes something you manufacture, not inherit.