If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
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We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
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