The domination of becoming produces another sort of fragmentation, which may be called presentism. Allen Tate has made the point that many modern people to whom the word provincial is anathema are themselves provincials in the to an extreme degree. Indeed, modernism is in essence a provincialism, since it declines to look beyond the horizon of the moment, just as a countryman may view with suspicion whatever lies beyond his country.

p. 67. - Ideas have Consequences (1948)