Our current moment is defined by an obsession with the new, a new for new's sake that no longer exists on a timeline, but has rather become epistemologically, spiritually, necessary. This obsession was born with modernity, the Renaissance, the 'discovery' of the New World and the desire to have a blank slate, a new society without ties to the past. As we know, that never existed. Professor Francesco Erspamer contrasts this with political philosopher Machiavelli's different modernity: one that privileges, above all, duration in time. He defends a reformulation of the present moment that would better allow us to survive current crises.