Things Fall Apart

What is the main idea of William Butler Yeats' "The Second Coming"

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This really points to the theme. This is all wrapped up with World War One, the end of the world and the Old Testament. Yeats wondered, after World War 1, how to tell the difference between good and evil. The best of people Yeats says lack any "conviction" to stop self destruction.