Michale Foley, a British academic with a wry sense of very British humor, but an impressive span of intellectual resources, has written a book every American should read (but almost none will, because it actually requires some intellectual effort):
The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes it Hard to Be Happy (2010). I believe he has correctly identified the fatal flaws in our collective Western world cultural psyche. The very flaws that seem to be making it impossible for us to pull ourselves out of the mess are the same flaws have put us into the mess. I cannot write as good a review as has already been written by Phil Hogan of
The Guardian in his piece
The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be Happy by Michael Foley, and so I refer you to that review.
By all means get this book and read it. The writing is witty, but the message is profound.
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