I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.
What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.