[weston]

As Pascal put it:
“It is in vain, O men, that you seek within
yourselves the cure for your miseries. Your
principal maladies are pride, which cuts you
off from God, and sensuality which binds you
to the earth. Either you imagine you are gods
yourselves, or, if you grasp the vanity of such
a pretension, you are cast into the other abyss,
and suppose yourselves to be like the beasts
of the field and seek your good in carnality.”
So without God, we were left with a choice of
megalomania or erotomania; the clenched fist
or the phallus; Nietzsche or Sade; Hitler or D.
H. Lawrence.
——Malcom Muggeridge

[r9etb]

the clenched fist or the phallus;

Mr. Muggeridge might profitably have added "the clenched fist and the phallus," and pointed to the emasculating tendencies of modern feminism....

[betty boop]

So without God, we were left with a choice of megalomania or erotomania; the clenched fist or the phallus; Nietzsche or Sade; Hitler or D. H. Lawrence.

Thank you so much, weston, for this lapidary insight from the great "St. Muggs!"