in love and restoration, in the
sensing of humanity as the con–
crete thing, the datum of our cul–
tural existence. It will lie in the
creation of a new capacity, proof
against terror, to experience our
natural life to the full. What has
once been transcended cannot be
repeated; already we live without
morality, though hypocrites study
the old deceits. Men will
go
on
to
seek the good life in the direction
of what
is
joyous; they know what
is terrible. May the knowledge of
joy come
to
them, and the know–
ledge of terror never leave!
So who
is
alienated ? We are the
prophets and inheritors of the pre–
sent world and the only men who
are at home
in
it, apart from the
tyrannous bureaucrats-and even
they regard us as their real enem–
ies. It is impossible to live,
to
think,
to create without bearing witness
against the terror. But once we do
so-behold, our great theme and
occupation, our role, our language,
our tone and our audience--for
what else is worth hearing today?
This is the ground we have to de–
fend against the terror, and on
which we may hope to make joy
come alive.
Isaac Rosenfeld
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