Sometimes when the world doesn't make sense, you have to take a self healing journey and find out what to make of all of it. Modernists take on life is to follow your heart and to make sense of the world around you by staying true to themselves and what they believe in.
In "Fahrenheit 451", Montag was the perfect example of a modernist. He was the ideal example because the world around him didn't quite fit the person he truly was. His beliefs clashed with the rules, therefore he had to take action as the modernist he was and followed his inner self and conscious.
When you decide to take that first step and make sense of the world, you decide to break the rules on your own terms and fulfill the purpose you sought for. But before you do try to fix the world around you, your inner self and conscious must be fixed first. The majority if modernist felt that the generation before them didn't stay true to themselves and saw no flaws in the world around them, but they knew that there was so much imperfection to be dealt with.
Ray Bradbury was a modernist himself and wanted to portray that with his character Montag. When Montag took that first step with breaking the rules by reading those books, he ultimately began the journey for self fulfillment. Ray Bradbury was one of the ideal modernist authors that set the stage for many more modernists to come.
All in all, what modernists wanted to get across was to be true to yourself and follow your heart. To make sense of the world around you, you need to heal your inner self and conscious first.
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