The bitter paradoxes of our age: we have materialism without a pleasure principle; hyper-sexuality without a pleasure principle. Acquisitiveness, avarice, selfishness come naturally, but there is no real work ethic—just work addiction; sex is airbrushed over every surface, but the ambiguities and intensities of Eros have become too much for many to bear…
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