"The new generation is intoxicated with the rallying cry of 'self-expression.' The new generation is letting itself go. If it has any standard, it is the standard of exalted personalism and self-pleasing at any cost to old law and old custom or old manners. ... With the weakening down of law and self-restraint, there is the over-leaping race for material pleasures. This is the inspiration of the 'get-rich-quick movement'; get money that may be spent on pleasure and more pleasure. ... No one has time; all are pressed, life is too short to stop and think. ... 'On with the song' and 'on with the dance,' these are the cries, and the music goes faster and more furious, the very sounds of the music are barbaric, appealing to the animal, to the brute sense within, stirring the blood, adding fuel to the fire till passion is at white heat." (Written in 1929 by I.M. Haldeman, A King's Penknife, or, Why I am Opposed to Modernism) Comments are closed.
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