"A seismic shift was underway. The very possibility of the emergence of critics, much less radical dissidents, would in the not-too-distant future be erased. After so many false prophesies of the Apocalypse, human history was marching to its close. Morality, shmorality. Soul, shmoul. Greed is good, God is dead, and vice is virtue. Nietzsche's Last Man had walked off the pages of Also Sprach Zarathustra, his brain suffused with serotonin and doused...