(Who needs Shakespeare in a dumbed-down, screen-obsessed North American society?)
(as in great books, great visual art, Great architecture, great music, great music, great thinkers, great men and women), there are no civilization, lofty ideals and idealism, optimism, confidence, higher education and learning, cultivated thinking or conversation, enlightenment, refinement, common courtesy, manners, and refinement of language, individuals and society.
Welcome to our restless, frightened, paranoid, soulless age with much alienation, much stupidity, many agendas, obsession with money or materialism, and little communication of consequence.