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The truth is that the masses grew out of the fragments of a highly atomized society whose competitive structure and concomitant loneliness of the individual had been held in check only through membership in a class. The chief characteristic of the mass man is not brutality and backwardness, but his isolation and lack of normal social relationships.

. . .the heart of the matter is knowing whether evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is random or purposeful. If it's purposeful, we can fight it, it's hard to defeat, but we have a chance, like two boxers in the same weight class, more or less. If it's random, on the other hand, we're fucked, and we'll just have to hope that God, if He exists, has mercy on us. And thats what it all comes down to.

Having known the depths of cruelty, having witnessed what their fellow men and women were capable of, they could no longer look upon the world without seeing it shadow and even when they close their eyes to try to avoid it, they felt as if behind that darkness there were something more still watching and waiting for them.

He is GOING AFTER Hegel’s historicism.

Poems become more focused as AG ages into his 60s.

Pretty uneven. Just finished the section of eulogies for Neal Cassidy.

Almost there! I'm starting to pay attention to how many times I mentally roll my eyes while reading ATD.

The old ladder climbing up into the window of your lover trick.

But I shall never have what I want, for I lack bottle he grace and the courage that comes with it. The sweetness of my mind is too strong for my body.