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If Greed Were Not The Master Of Modern Man, How Could It Be That The Frenzy Of Economic Activity Does Not Abate As Higher Standards Of Living Are Attained, And That It Is Precisely The Richest Societies Which Pursue Their Economic Advantage With The Greatest Ruthlessness?

The Art Of Living Is Always To Make A Good Thing Out Of A Bad Thing.

The Modern World Tends To Be Skeptical About Everything That Makes Demands On Man's Higher Faculties. But It Is Not At All Skeptical About Skepticism, Which Demands Hardly Anything.

That Soul-destroying, Meaningless, Mechanical, Moronic Work Is An Insult To Human Nature Which Must Necessarily And Inevitably Produce Either Escapism Or Aggression, And That No Amount Of 'bread And Circuses' Can Compensate For The Damage Done-these Are Facts Which Are Neither Denied Nor Acknowledged But Are Met With An Unbreakable Conspiracy Of Silence-because To Deny Them Would Be Too Obviously Absurd And To Acknowledge Them Would Condemn The Central Preoccupation Of Modern Society As A Crime Against Humanity.

Every Increase Of Needs Tends To Increase One's Independence On Outside Forces Over Which One Cannont Have Control And Therefore Increases Existential Fear