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“I have no doubt that humanity will get over this war, but I know for certain that I and my contemporaries will see the world cheerful no more.” Ominously, he concluded that “since we can only regard the highest present civilization as burdened with an enormous hypocrisy, it follows that we are organically unfitted for it. We have to abdicate, and the Great Unknown, He or It, lurking behind Fate will someday repeat this experiment with another race. I know that science is only apparently dead, but humanity seems to be really dead.”
― Matthew Von Unwerth, Freud's Requiem: Mourning, Memory, and the Invisible History of a Summer Walk