At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.
Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20). . . For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.