Modernity justifies itself by disowning acts it classifies as passionate

Evidence

Modernity declared war on passion and inscribed Reason, in the boldest of letters, on its banners: in hoc signo vinces. Modern mind shuns passion, denigrates and disdains passion, and in every manifestation of passion sniffs evidence of its own failure. By doing so, it refuses, not unjustly, to bear responsibility for crimes of passion. Whoever kills for love or hatred is out of modern bounds. There is indeed nothing particularly modern about the crime of passion. And it is hardly the fault of modern ambition that some men and women refuse or fail to listen to the voice of reason and remain slaves to their passions. Modernity has no need to apologize for crimes of passion. And if it does apologize it could only be for slackness, for negligence, for not doing its modernizing job thoroughly enough. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 376

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s Frankfurt School material on instrumental reason and nature-domination.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 376