Paradoxically, the same issue also contained the final chapters of Dostoevskiy's Crime and Punishment and the first chapters of Tolstoy's War and Peace , which vividly illustrates how risky global generalizations can become.
Exact diagnosis is the privilege of descendants rather than contemporaries.
To give it, one needs a certain distance in time, a point of extrapolation that unlocks the space of a retrospective view. Furthermore, in the case of a serious disease there is a danger that exact diagnosis may become a problem not for a doctor but for an autopsist. For more than one hundred years, outstanding European intellectuals, Friedrich Nietzsche perhaps being the first of them, have been appealing to us to realize that modern civilization is developing in a suicidal way, clearly depicting the spiritual tragedy of the present moment. Several generations of Europeans spent their lives waiting for Godot in vain. Although the twentieth century was really tragic in the history of mankind, in the long run the anticipated end of the Alexandrian epoch, permanent mass revolt, or irreversible oblivion at the start of the third millennium saddens neither the minds nor the souls of educated Europeans.