There is a certain type of brevity prevalent in this culture that is not admirable in the least, because it is just aggressive primitivism admiring itself in the mirror. It's like a teenage kid who walks up to a magnificent Renaissance fresco, looks at it uncomprehendingly, and scrawls "Fuck You!" on it with a magic marker. He then goes off feeling quite proud of himself for having confronted the elegant past with his fresh and modern outlook. He knows he is superior to anything that happened more than five minutes ago. He takes no prisoners. Mercy is a concept that has never even occurred to him.