“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted
fact. It is difficult to resist the conclusion that 20th century man has
decided to abolish himself, tired of the struggle to be himself, he
has created boredom out of his own affluence, impotence out of his own
erotomania and vulnerability out of his own strength. He himself blows the
trumpet that brings the walls of his own cities crashing down, until at last
having educated himself into imbecility, having drugged and polluted himself
into stupefaction he keels over a weary old Brontosaurus and becomes
extinct."
by: Malcolm Muggeridge