"If Civilization has increased the producing power of the average man, why has it not bettered the lot of the average man? There can be one answer only -- MISMANAGEMENT. Civilization has made possible all manner of creature comforts and heart's delights. In these the average Englishman does not participate. If he shall be forever unable to participate, then Civilization falls. There is no reason for the continued existence of an artifice so avowed a failure. But it is impossible that men should have reared this tremendous artifice in vain. It stuns the intellect. To acknowledge so crushing a defeat is to give the death-blow to striving and progress. One other alternative, and one other only, presents itself. Civilization must be compelled to better the lot of the average man." (London, 314).
Once again we are up against this lie of progress.
Also in this vein, here is a link to George Orwell's essay on Henry Miller, entitled Inside the Whale,
http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/essay/insidewhale_1.html
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