In the last two chapters we have traversed much ground in order to set out the immediate backdrop to our contemporary social, and more specifically intellectual agonies. We have identified both political actualities and theories (whether or not these have always been correctly understood) of philosophers in the main German – plus wilful blindness, both political and intellectual, in European and Anglo-American thinkers and readers more generally. We have looked at Fascism, Communism, Internationalism, Feminism, post-modernism, consumerism, ‘Big Tech’ and the ‘sexual revolution’. We now return to the present state of our Original Tradition, still available and a possible resource as we attempt to resolve our contemporary perplexities – yet increasingly drawn on only as a desperate (and often unadmitted) last resort.