Soren Kierkegaard was born 200 years ago on the precipice of the modern world. He didn't like it much then; what would he make of it now?

A swelling public sphere fuelled by an ascendant press wasn't doing much for his nerves. Kierkegaard looked around to see an age, "...devoid of passion,..which flies into enthusiasm for a moment only to decline back into indolence." A criticism of the online age is that we skim the surface of things, never to commit with existential depth. So, is it natural to assume that Kierkegaard wouldn't log on with the moderns?

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