That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end. - Daniel Bell

No one "voted in" the market economy and the industrial revolution, but today issues of direction of the economy, costs, redress, priorities, and goals all have become matters of conscious and debated social policy.

Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.

Nihilism, then, is the end process of rationalism. It is man's self conscious will to destroy his past and control his future. It is modernity at its extreme.