For the last 500 years, man has been ridding himself of barriers to his freedom, to the point where he has managed to rid himself of the need for his fellow man and therefore ushered in hyper-individualism, loneliness, and estrangement from Community.
p 96 "This liberation (from the "burden" of reliance on one another, perhaps?) is exhilarating, and it is daunting; it is exciting, and it is lonely."
This self-reliance needs to change because it has been proven that "...'feelings about people contribute more to subjective well-being than feelings about money, whether spent or saved.'" p 109
CLINCHER ----> "Fast, cheap, and easy is what we have at the moment; they are the cardinal virtues upon which our economy rests (and if they also happen to be the the very adjectives you don't want attached to your child, well, that should give you a little pause.)" p 120
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