Truth must be discovered as you go along. Even God doesn't know how it's going to turn out. As Mailer sees it, good is instinct, passion, creativity, improvisation. Evil is habit, conformity, repression, sterility. Mailer believes we live in evil times.
Corporations grow like cancer.
Computers soften the muscles. Ugly buildings scar the skies. We fear death so badly we've let our very souls become climate controlled. In the old days it took twice as long to get from one town to another, but it was interesting, the drive was interesting. People live in this terror that if they get off the superhighway they're doomed.