Aversion against the traditional spirit has never been so strong and widespread, and reverence for the “so-called” eternal values has never been mocked so much, reaching the highest degree of desecration. But what have been the results? Empirical observation casts doubt on the efficacy of the cure, so that even radical intellectuals become perplexed. As I get ready to write these pages, I am reading a column by a radical writer in an Italian newspaper about the “escalation,” the faster and faster pace of the “taste for violence,” for destruction, for erotic perversion, for the exaltation of
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