It would be an understatement to say that the modern world has not been conducive to human flourishing. There is a sense that every humanizing influence is replaced with artificial interventions, causing life to become scripted, mechanized, quantified, and commoditized.
Worse still, the resulting malaise is so ubiquitous that even perceiving it, let alone defining it, is incredibly difficult — like asking a fish to perceive and define the water in which it swims. And even if one could wrap his mind around this pervasive force informing the current world, it would take a whole book to properly articulate what it is and what to do about it.
