"Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat": DEEP INSIGHTS on post-industrial SPECIALIZATION and WHY so much 'work' in our modern world seems almost MEANINGLESS and leaves people feeling EMPTY

          

“The fact is however, that this is probably the most unhappy average citizen in the history of the world. He has not the power to provide himself with anything but money. And his money is inflating like a balloon and drifting away, subject to historical circumstances and the power of other people.” 

--Wendell Barry, The Unsettling of America 1977--

The Court Jester