Closing of the American Mind – Allan Bloom
ethical race to the bottom: “the market creates the value”
“Mick Jagger played the role in their lives that Napoleon played in the lives of ordinary young Frenchmen throughout the nineteenth century.”
“[…] the exaltation naturally attached to the greatest endeavors—victory in a just war, consummated love, artistic creation, religious devotion and discovery of the truth.”
— the self-proclaimed moral superiority of the Capitalist Left