“This situation has stolen up upon us so quietly that its real nature is largely obscured. I believe that what Camille Paglia, provocatrice extraordinaire, has said with respect to our pop culture is correct. We are witnessing, she asserts, ‘an eruption of the never-defeated paganism of the West.’ Her thesis, which she developed in some detail in her Sexual Personae, is that there are always in culture two principles at work-the Apollonian and the Dionysian-one who urge is to expand and the other whose work is to restrain, one that undoes shape and the other that demands definition.” [David Wells, Losing Our Virtue (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998), pp. 17-18.]
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