The Moral Shortcomings of Modern Man

When Dr. Dimble mentions the “struggle between Logres and Britain,” it refers to a perpetual tug-of-war between the Old and New Orders — the budding visions of the few against the wisdom which has sustained mankind since its civilizational inception. Modernity, for all of its convenience and grand hopes, is subject to corruption by the consolidation of power and erosion of individuality, because both pose threats to the longstanding ideals of objective truth. 

Ryszard Legutko addresses a similar, contemporary dilemma in the conclusion of The Demon in Democracy,  outlining the inherent flaws present within “the aspirations and dreams of modern man” (Legutko 177). In this analytical passage of closure, the Polish academic accuses modern man of being blind towards “the danger of a moral fall,” implying that such sequences are a consequence of the times. 

N.I.C.E. operated with such blinders attached, unaware of the harm which they were inflicting. Even when the organization crumbled, Curry and Feverstone remained indignant, bitter about its fall from grace. Legutko would claim that the modern European Union is laced with Currys and Feverstones — those who cling to Marxism and its empty promises despite the fall of the Soviet Union; those who haven’t learned from its destructive nature and inhuman means of functioning.