Impoverished, Amory is seemingly radicalized praising the Bolsheviks and demanding public ownership of the means of production in America.
He coins an amusing description for smart and educated people - intellectuals, he calls them - tamed to the system.
"Spiritually married men," he calls them.
And yet he remains convinced of the essential role of the Catholic Church in forcing morals on the masses, of commanding "Thou shalt not!" when no one and nothing else can.
A view of the most rigid conservatives.
George Will, for example.
This Side of Paradise.
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