He remembered feeling part of a community—a group of people with shared values—and that sense of moral unity—“the notion that some things are not for buying and selling”—that seemed to have left America after World War II. Or was it after the Kennedy assassination? Or the murder of Sharon Tate? “I have no regrets,” he would write, “about having missed that semi-fabled epoch when men were men, women women, and writers rogues, but I increasingly feel—I suspect we all do—that the history of life on earth is not one of evolution so much as devolution. With each succeeding generation we get weaker
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