Better? Can't be done. It's like building a hot rod in your garage. You can drop in a bigger than stock engine in an LS460 and be faster in the quarter mile, but without spending the big bucks on R&D and thousands of hours of testing it's not going to be as smooth and dependable as a factory Lexus.
The beasts of modernism have mutated into the beasts of postmodernism—relativism into nihilism, amorality into immorality, irrationality into insanity, sexual deviancy into polymorphous perversity. And since then, generations of intelligent students under the guidance of their enlightened professors have looked into the abyss, have contemplated those beasts, and have said, “How interesting, how exciting.”
—Gertrude Himmelfarb, On Looking into the Abyss (1994)
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