You ain't kidding. It's an end time situation. People do not feel or act as if there's a future. We're on the downward slope of Western civilization, for good or bad. It's almost Spenglerian.
Total democracy seems to have won.
Western civilization is tottering, and I'm just giving it a quick kick to help it tumble faster. If I read Parfrey correctly, the point seems to be that as there are no longer any grand systems of thought dominating Western intellectuals, cerebral anarchy and short attention spans rule the day. In this environment, the intellectual with the greatest freak show wins. P.T. Barnum, Rod Serling and Hegel. The man can't be beat when it comes to collecting outr oddities.