Haiku of Culture Critique

Seen from this standpoint, the self-righteous conviction that this book is an exception seems sterile, simply because the title aims at the death of all others. In every decay mode of cultural evolution, the likelihood of "That's it" identified as the dominant hard and strong opens on its part to the unlikelihood of "That's not it" as weak and submissive, and only then, the two interact with one another. Only then, the decay brings about something new to the self. In short, this distancing is an unconcealment of homesickness, of which the speaker puts in his final line, "Today, the restoration of homesickness proper to man and to Nature is a primary philosophical task."