Finished reading

Kapitoil yesterday--reading being protracted on account of much watching of movies on Netflix.  I pronounce it a good, necessary and clever book, and an invaluable window into the souls of [for want of a better word] Millennials.  Poor things.  Poor in that their patrimony has been wasted in the obscene fascist military adventurism of their fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers. Poor in that their education, which is focused entirely on chimeras of merely the most recent of pragmatic values, leaves them stupefyingly, colossally, ignorant of history and civilization, of the universe and of themselves.  Poor in that they have no philosophy or art or music or literature--doubly poor in that they imagine that they do.  Poor in that they must always, both gay and straight, put on a condom before engaging in penetrative sex--because, alas, casual, sociable, "unprotected" sex just for the fun (and the joy and the art and skill) of it is unthinkable.  Poor kids.  It breaks my heart.