The Battle of Ideas

Channeling Rieff channeling Sontag
Theories of cultures anew
We have become the prophets of anti-culture

Of new paradigms regarding morality
Third culture social radicalism
And the gospel of self-fulfillment

As the clerisy we decree
[Fundamentalist pessimism
Versus utopian fantasy] revolutions

When, for the intelligentsia
Everything is the battle of ideas
With futures at stake