The above quoted paragraphs are not as evil as those who have denigrated him.
The answer, he says, is a "strange national nihilism" in which disasters are celebrated and triumphs denigrated.
The poor often denigrated as the dregs of society, often have a problem with cash flow, with money flowing out of their lives.
I remember as a young boy on one of my birthdays, my grandfather questioned and denigrated this custom of celebrating birthdays.
By engendering feelings of impotence, guilt and damnation, the Christian doctrine of original sin denigrated life on earth to waiting in an ante-chamber which led to some other-worldly existence.
