" Hyper individualism - or what I have elsewhere called idiosyncratic identity - and historicism - regression to past models of meaning - are attempts to outflank it, rather than manifestations of it, as they have been thought to be. On the contrary, decadence involves the forfeiture and collapse of radical individuality and the abandonment and loss of historical consciousness: decadence always involves the reification - petrification - of existing modes at the expense of future possibilities as well as past achievements, that is, of hypothetical utopia as well as tradition, of idealism as well as the truth that has been."
Donald Kuspit in " The Dialect of Decadence".
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