/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10155175]

>"Our age is not only the most Jewish, but also the most effeminate of all ages;
an age in which art only provides a sudarium for its moods and which has de-
rived the artistic urge in humans from the games played by animals; an age of
the most credulous anarchism, an age without any appreciation of the state and
law, an age of species ethic, an age of the shallowest of all imaginable interpre-
tations of history (historical materialism), an age of capitalism and marxism,
an age for which history, life, science, everything, has become nothing but eco-
nomics and technology; an age that has declared genius to be a form of mad-
ness, but which no longer has one great artist or one great philosopher, an age
that is most devoid of originality, but which chases most frantically after origi-
nality; an age that has replaced the idea of virginity with the cult of the demi-
vierge. This age also has the distinction of being the ¤rst to have not only af¤rmed and
worshipped sexual intercourse, but to have practically made it a duty, not as a way of
achieving oblivion, as the Romans or Greeks did in their bacchanals, but in or-
der to ¤nd itself and to give its own dreariness a meaning."