Modern society is a society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property, which produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast... in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.
Modern society is proceeding simultaneously to become inhospitable to the old and to multiply their number by prolonging their lives.
Modern society is composed of distinct and connected spheres: Economy (where use-values are produced), politics (where collective decisions are made), culture (where values are generated).
Modern society is nothing more than a collection of isolated human beings. The earth is still filled with nature, but once you build a house in it, it is immediately broken. And the people inside the house are also broken.
Modern society is divided into two cultures whereby sciences focuses on a material world devoid of humans, and humanities on a human world devoid of materiality.
Modern society is like a Calder mobile: disturb it here and it jiggles over there, too.
Modern society is suffering, as its central pathology, from the colonization and technizationa of the lifeworld by the system. That is, 'success' and 'efficiency' have become over-extended into the communicative sphere.