The reign of quantity & the signs of the times

"SINCE THE TIME WHEN The Crisis of the Modern World was written, the march of events has only served to confirm, all too completely and all too quickly, the validity of the outlook on the present situation that was adopted in that book, although the subject matter was then dealt with independently of all preoccupation with immediate 'actuality' as well as of any intention toward a vain and barren 'critique'."