Cultural Crisis

“The necessity, in the end, of yielding to hard and inexplicable realities that are beyond our control is a tragic truth…That so much of contemporary culture is characterized by [a] kind of sentimentality, by a seeming preference for false ‘closures’ over a strong and meaningful confrontation with real and inalterable pain, is a cultural crisis.”

- Daniel Mendelsohn in How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken