The Awareness Of The All-surpassing Importance Of

Culture Requires In The First Place A Certain Balance Of Material And Spiritual Values.

The Content Of The Ideal Is A Desire To Return To The Perfection Of An Imaginary Past.

Culture Arises And Unfolds In And As Play... Culture Itself Bears The Character Of Play.

Without Metaphor The Handling Of General Concepts Such As Culture And Civilization Becomes Impossible, And That Of Disease And Disorder Is The Obvious One For The Case In Point. Is Not Crisis Itself A Concept We Owe To Hippocrates? In The Social And Cultural Domain No Metaphor Is More Apt Than The Pathological One.

Life Is Made Too Easy. Mankind's Moral Fibre Is Giving Way Under The Softening Influence Of Luxury.