Indeed, all of this has already been discovered by better men and women I “cannot hope to emulate.” For further exploration of this book’s themes, I recommend to you Walker Percy’s Lost in the Cosmos and The Moviegoer, C. S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength, T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets and Choruses from “The Rock,” Capitalism and Progress: A Diagnosis of Western Society by Bob Goudzwaard, OK Computer by Radiohead, The Weariness of the Self by Alain Ehrenberg, Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity, Patrick J. Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed, Josef Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Wendell
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