Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Similarly, it has become abundantly clear in the second half of the twentieths century that Western Man has decided to abolish himself. Having wearied of the struggle to be himself, he has created his own boredom out of his own affluence, his own impotence out of his own erotomania, his own vulnerability out of his own strength; himself blowing the trumpet that brings the walls of his own city tumbling down, and, in a progress of the auto-genocide, convincing himself that he is too numerous, and laboring accordingly with pill and scalpel and syringe to make himself fewer in order to be an easier prey for his enemies; until at last, have educated himself into imbecility, and polluted and drugged himself into stupefaction, he keels over, a wary, battered old brontosaurus, and becomes extinct.

Seeing Through the Eye, Malcolm Muggeridge

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