"There is another way of seeing what Wagner is getting at. Modern people are living beyond the death of their gods. And this means that we live with an enhanced awareness of our contingency—of the fact of being thrown into the world with neither goal nor explanation. And yet, just as much as our forebears, we are social beings who judge and are judged by our fellows. We do not rescue ourselves from this predicament by discarding guilt and shame, even if that is the preferred modern solution. For people without shame—those who live beyond judgment and in the moment alone—are both shameless and shameful. We recoil from them as people incapable of love. But we also envy their self-centered ways. Like them, we are tempted to seek our own advantage, indifferent to those whom we harm. We are tempted to live by rational self-interest, judging everything—the sexual act included—in terms of cost and benefit. Homo economicus, who exchanges duty for only pleasure and value for price, seems to us to have freed himself from guilt. But if he has done so, we recognize, it is because he has freed himself also from love."
-Roger Scruton
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