What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.