Sometimes it appears that we’re reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an Age of The Gross. Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action.
The young and by this I don’t mean by any stretch of the imagination all the young, but I’m talking about those who claim to speak for the young at the zenith of physical power and sensitivity, overwhelm themselves with drugs and artificial stimulants. Subtly is lost and fine distinctions based on acute reasoning are carelessly ignored in a headlong jump to a predetermined conclusion.
Life is visceral,(p) rather than intellectual. And the most visceral practitioners of life are those who characterize themselves as intellectuals. Truth is to them is revealed rather than logically proved. And the principal infatuations of today revolve around the Social Sciences, those subjects which can accommodate any opinion and about which the most reckless conjecture cannot be discredited.
