Folly Farm

When Cyril Joad knew that he had only a short time to live, he summarized many of his concerns about philosophical and educational decline. His reflections on the decline of Western culture were somber. On the last page of his last work, Joad concluded that our age is “an age without art, without beauty and without genius. . . . What is more, it is exceedingly unlikely that, short of a major catastrophe ushering in a new Dark Age, creativity will return to the arts.