It always seems a deliberate conspiracy to suppress conclusions. Lunch,
grinning like a Jack-in-the-box, in a bleak emptiness. People ought not
to meet at lunch time. If the bleakness is overcome it is only by
borrowing from the later hours. And the loan is wasted by the absence of
after-time, the business of filling up the afternoon with activities;
leaving everything to be begun all over again later on.
How can guests _allow_ themselves to arrive to lunch? The smooth young
man had come primed for his visit. Carefully talking in the Wilson way;
carefully finding everything in the world amusing. And he was not
amused. He was a cold selfish baffled young man, lost in a set. Welcomed
here as a favoured emissary from a distant potentate....
And now with just the same air of reflected brilliance he was blithely
playing tennis. Later on he would have to begin again with his talk;
able parroting, screening hard coldness, the hard coldness of the pale
yellow-haired Englishman with good features.... A blindfold humanitarian
giant? Where are Reich's English giants? Blind. Amongst the
old-fashioned, conservatives? Gentlepeople with fixed ideas who don't
want to change anything? The Lycurgans are not humanitarians. Because
they are humanitarians deliberately. Liberals and socialists are
humanitarian intellectually, through anger. Humanitarian idealists. The
giants are humanitarian unconsciously, through breeding. Reich said the
strongest motives, the motives that made history, were _unconscious_....
Consciousness is increasing. The battle of unconscious fixed ideas and
conscious chosen fixed ideas. Then the conservatives must always win!
They make socialists and then absorb them. The socialists give them
ideas. Neither of them are quite true. Why doesn't God state truth once
and for all and have done with it?