Here is an excerpt from Chris Hedges' talk at the University of Western Ontario.
It is his summary of where we are today, and how we have gotten here.
"Unhappy people are better off living in the city. A person can live in the city for a hundred years and not even realize that they are already dead and rotting. They don't have time to realize this on their own; they are too busy."
Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata, 1889