Machine Age Mass Man

Bernanos provided the most precise commentary on this entire process: “For modern man, who suffers from such nervous exhaustion, evil is not a revolt but an escape, a way for man to rest by ‘distracting’ himself (from distrahere: ‘to disperse’ or ‘squander’), a way for him to get out of himself and into the open, a method, alas, for man to strip himself of his person, just as a snake sheds its skin.” Bernanos:An Ecclesial Existence