The actual real crisis was WW2 which proved so many grand ideas to be wrong or terrifying if right. The atom bomb and the slaughter proved science is powerful,

The actual real crisis was WW2 which proved so many grand ideas to be wrong or terrifying if right. The atom bomb and the slaughter proved science is powerful, god nonpresent, and that in either case society had no grand narrative to believe in any longer that wouldn’t be horrifying in the end.