I'm considered to be very fit and healthy. I like to play at least six hours of tennis per week, on a newly refurbished public tennis court near where I live. I'm sitting on a designer office chair, in my nice warm study-room pondering the question of 'what do I have faith in?' So I turn on my iMac, plug in my iPod and search for Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers then press 'Aux' on my JVC amplifier. With the added bonus of a subwoofer, the digitally re-mastered sound is truly inspiring. But wait one second - my mobile phone has just recieved an e-mail... Its my girlfriend - 'lunch delayed by two hours'. No problem, I've got some spicy German sausage, French goats cheese, fresh ciabatta bread and some virgin olive oil, very nice - all from my local super-market on Sunday. It only takes ten minutes to drive there in my 2.5 litre BMW coupe. Right then 'what do I have faith in? - I have total faith in the Western modern way of living. I'm sick to the teeth with those who continually bombard my multimedia communication systems proclaiming that modern life is a nightmare, or worse - a complete disaster. Our society has indeed lost faith. There is no faith even in its own finest achievements. People in the West now live longer, are richer in wealth and fitter in health than ever before. Even those who are now classified as poor in developed societies like mine (UK) have access to goods and services that are far beyond the imagination of the super-rich a century ago. I've seen modern farming methods described as 'like Auschwitz'. Modern food is often called 'toxic'. Modern medicine is deemed 'unsafe'. But the truth is, there is no substance to most of these stories. Critics of the project of modernity have no viable alternative to it. Critics of modernism seem to want less technological advances not more. The critics of the modern way of life would love humanity to go back a 'pre-modern era' - ie... the caves no doubt. I want to see the unfettered growth of Western science and its application in society, and throughout the world. It was not wars that led to great social change in the past, it was the compass and the telescope that overthrew religious fuedalism over two hundred years ago. The broadband internet is my weapon choice against modern day philistines. So viva modern life - this is what I have faith in.