MISSING CHARACTER

of course the culture is soulless ... it has to be ... it has a government that must say of the soul maybe maybe not ... it's a question above my paygrade ... it has to say this because it has to be fair to all the people some who think there are no souls ... the culture obedient to the government must also be discreet in order to be polite in order to be civil especially in public particularly in a crowd ... and people can do this by saying the soul is a private affair ... and that works ... as long as you keep the private and the public separate discrete it works ... but the devil is in detail so that's where the problem is too ... first in a few details then in many ... the public in our culture aided by the government or prodding it has taken out of tradition that which has always been private and put it on display ... and in the middle of the stage surrounded by analysis and derision is the one character the audience now by convention cannot see cannot hear cannot talk about ... the soul naked but discreetly silent