CHALLENGE OF MODERNITY
The paper describes a generalized vision of modern age challenge with which humanity has faced. The analogy between modernity and late Rome is presented; the author pays attention to formation of a new synthetic reality. Substantial elements of this reality are on the one hand - legacy of previous time, on the other hand - products of economic and information globalization happening nowadays. The world has become flat by value and breaks down into particular; in fact this is the challenge of our time. New semantic integrity of mankind should meet it.