Sandwiched between summer vacations, I have been Slowly trudging through Nietzsche’s ‘Beyond Good and Evil’—an immersion for which I have my reasons. In a strange way, an odd quote Ritchie Robertson refers to several times in his compendium on the Enlightenment comes to mind. I am butchering the quote, yet I feel the idea is there. ‘The gods are allowed to be harsh for they are gods. However, a rationale man must be rationale”. Or as a Trappist monk said to me once: ‘That may be good for the saints. However, for you it is off limits”. I came across a powerful ending to a Nietzsche chapter. The penetrating insight cuts to the bone. It is what mankind, globally and nationally, has become. Luckily, on the local level I think there is hope. Faith, hope, and charity prevails on the individual and small community level. “The UNIVERSAL DEGENERACY OF MANKIND to the level of the “man of the future”—as idealized by the socialistic fools and shallow pates—this degeneracy and dwarfing of man to an absolutely gregarious animal (or as they call it, to a man of “free society”), this brutalizing of man into a pigmy with equal rights and claims, is undoubtedly POSSIBLE! He who has thought out this possibility to its ultimate conclusion knows ANOTHER loathing unknown to the rest of mankind—and perhaps also a new MISSION!” For myself, I would prefer the idea of an old mission—the post-post-post modern that drives us into an ineffectual political obsession and division of pygmies usurped fundamentally by the old, while interspersed and unafraid of that which is good in the new. As Pope Leo XIII advocated. When an organization struggles, it must return to that which gave it birth in order to resuscitate itself.