Holland is a country of political, religious and cultural fervour. The Dutch are a nation of puritans, attracted to the ‘purity’ of extremisms. In the first half of the last century the country was the most prudish, but in the second half of the century it took hedonistic secularism to its furthest limits. The Dutch live below sea level but they prefer to walk on the edge of an abyss.In the 1970s there was not a country in Europe where the hatred for traditional Western values was as...