i need help with my English homeowrk..."the predicament of modern man"?

Question

what does that mean? its from woody allen's My Speech to the Graduates
I speak, by the way, not with any sense of futility, but with a panicky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence which could easily be misinterpreted as pessimism. It is not. It is merely a healthy concern for the predicament of modern man. ( Modern man is here definedas any person born after Nietzsche's edict that "God is dead", but before the hit recording "I wanna Hold your Hand".")
thank you...thats it^ "the predicament of modern man"

Answer 1

I hope this isn't too late. The moral decay of imperial Rome was overcome by the gospel for that day, and the moral decay of Western civilization will be likewise overcome by the gospel for our day. If modern man can be made to see and understand the predicament he is in, that very recognition may be amazingly beneficial.

We need to believe that we can survive a civilization gone rotten and that the essential faith of Western man can be restored to this end. There can be no enduring or generally satisfying civilization apart from ethical foundations. A mere power culture will eventually cease to be a culture at all. What we need is a situation in which we so combine scientific and technical skill with moral and spiritual discipline that the products of human genius shall be used for the welfare of the human race rather than their harm and destruction.

By faith, and gospel, I do not refer to the poor substitute that the religions have tried to foist off on an unspecting population. I refer to the true faith in mankind, and gospel of ethics and morals that will lead to our true salvation.

Answer 2

You are being a bit of a slacker, doing your research here. The question is meant to stimulate your critical faculty. The 'modern man' is the individual unshackled from the constraints and freedoms that religions offer. The person born into the vacuum left after the moral codes of yesteryear have been abandoned.
Hopefully that has got you started.