"High modernity is characterised by widespread scepticism about providential reason, coupled with the recognition that science and technology are double-edged, creating new parameters of risk and danger as well as offering beneficent possibilities for humankind. Such scepticism is not confined to the writings and ponderings of philosophers and intellectuals: we have seen that awareness of the existential parameters of reflexivity becomes part of reflexivity itself on a very broad level. To live in the 'world' produced by high modernity has the feeling of riding a juggernaut."
                                                                                                  Modernity and Self-Identity/ss.27-28