"In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together."

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The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.

— Lesslie Newbigin