Bill Berg

“Pervasive rationalistic, technical and bureaucratic ways of thinking have emptied life of meaning by destroying what Berger calls the ‘sacred canopy’ of meanings reflecting collective beliefs about life, death and the world in which we live. The resultant anomie, or loss of all bearings, the demise of any shared structure of values, leads to a sort of existential angst.”
― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

“of the sad signs of our times,” he wrote, “is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.”
― Dan Crenshaw, Fortitude: Resilience in the Age of Outrage