Man falls.
Man does not change. He just returns to his human state. Man falls. Faithful retainers and saintly women fall. There is no way to avoid this, nor would an avoidance save man. Man lives, man falls. There is no convenient shortcut to salvation that exists outside of this. We do not fall because we have lost the war. We fall because we are human; we fall because we are alive.... Like man, Japan, too, must fall. It must redeem itself by falling to the very depths and there finding itself. Redemption through politics is but a surface phenomenon and of no value at all.
Still, it is not possible for man to fall eternally, it is not possible for him to hit rock bottom. The reason? In the face of hardship man cannot maintain a heart of steel. Man is pathetic, man is frail, and for this he is laughable. But he is just too weak to fall to the very bottom.
People have not changed, they have always been like this. The times have changed. The world. Its outer skin.
"Darakuron" von Sakaguchi Ango