This not only proclaims the repeated shattering over the last hundred years of the myth reconstructed through reform and revolution, and tolls the final death-knell of traditional rational Confucian culture; it also announces the rise of, and man's slide into, an all-embracing new sensualist culture.
這不但標示了百年來變革再造神話的一再破滅，喻現了儒家傳統理性文化的終究淪亡；更是宣告了一種彌天漫地而來，新的感性文明的興起與沈淪。