As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don't give a damn about Jim Bakker.