What inherent weaknesses and contradictions plague post-Enlightenment modernity? Neither the philosophy of the subject, nor the psychology of the unconscious, nor Marxist or liberal economics, nor the sociology of institutions, together with a theology that has lost the gift of prophecy, were able to predict what is nevertheless established, triumphantly and unquestioningly, as a post-human era in the Greek-Western world. They could not predict that there are no terms and boundaries in human self-extension disconnected from nature and God. How opening to tremendous possibilities can be closing. How the harshest Totalitarianism is velvety...