Is Modernism akin to the cumulative trauma of secularisation,

That  to make one's  own systems or be trapped in a world without system Is Modernism cumulative trauma of secularisation,

Trotter looks to the ‘representational strategies’ of the great literary Modernists – Lawrence, Conrad, Ford and Wyndham Lewis – for ways to work through these new dilemmas. ‘The writers and painters of the period,’ he writes, ‘acknowledged by the interest they took in mess that a realism that did not want to know about the operations of chance would be no realism at all.’ Once you get interested in chance, your sense of human agency begins to change. People have to find ways of describing the (new) fact that, like everything else in nature, they are nothing special. Even the people who are considered to be especially good at this kind of description, the writers and painters, are nothing special.