So why are people upvoting these entirely subjective articles (because I don't see how they belong here)?
Part of the DNA of Hacker News is a polymathic sensibility. That comes from pg, who's interested in a lot of things. Diversifying the subject matter here is why Hacker News exists, as you can see from https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html. That's the origin of the phrase "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", which became the mandate of this site.
Besides, all "modernists" have done is produce __trash__ and it will be remembered as such no matter how deeply the humanities try to paint it as intellectual and deep, it will never reach the level of Caravaggio, Velazques, Rubens, Cervantes and the like. Nope, it will be forgotten because it's neither beautiful nor good in any objective sense.
It's not that tech/STEM people are intellectually empty, many people in STEM simply don't buy the bullshit.