re: #59 lostlakehiker

They’re afraid of a general move in public folkways toward dropping all the old standards and habits.

What does this mean?

And so, faced with this false dichotomy, they fear that any little step away from their own strict code leads to the other end of the scale. And they see that in fact, millions of people have been drawn in to lives of anarchy and despair, chasing after the pleasures of the moment, or lapsing into a desperate and angry boredom and ennui.

So have people who live according to ‘old standards and habits.’ Despair, certainly, pleasure-chasing, definitely, desperate angry boredeom, absolutely.

Why aren’t you including that in your ‘analysis’?