A Dead End - The Death of Culture

It seems that Oxford University Honours School of English Language and Literature has been debating the future of Old English (which a lecturer seemed to think was an irrelevant dead-end), Chaucer, and Shakespeare, in the compulsory parts of the syllabus.

For all I know, they are no longer compulsory.

The new syllabus includes Phillip Roth. The subject of his book, 'Portnoy's Complaint', is masturbation.

I can think of no 'deader-end' than that particular vice.