XXX: What did your students get wet again?
YYY: I quote: "Modernism as a cultural situation arose in... the 5th century of our era"

Modernism as a cultural situation arose in the 5th century AD, which was one of the causes of the decline of ancient culture and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. German vandals-modernists with cries for unity and realism broke into Rome and crushed the monuments of architecture, writing them with the motherly verses of Mayakovsky. And non-modern Romans were executed, robbed and raped. In this order. They are you what? What about postmodernists?