Both feeding and feeding upon the growing anxiety of emptiness and meaninglessness, the industrialized north and west plunged ever more frenetically into the mass delirium of industrial growth society that, as Theodore Roszak characterized the situation in 1969, “after ruthlessly eroding the traditionally transcendent ends of life, has concomitantly given us a proficiency of technical means that now oscillates absurdly between the production of frivolous abundance and the production of genocidal munitions.”
