The structure of human life is entirely transformed

“The average man is invited to slice his life into a series of one-day lives, regulated by the clock of fashion. The human being is no longer the unit. He becomes the containing frame for a generation or sequence of ephemerids, roughly organized into what he calls his ‘personality’. Or the highly organized human mind finds its natural organic unity degraded into a worm-like extension, composed of a segmented, equally-distributed, accentless life. Each segment, each fashion day (as a day of this new creature could be called) must be organically self-sufficing.” - Wyndham Lewis, Time and Western Man, Book I, ch. II, p. 12.