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More than anyone else in the society, these men had apparently dreamed the dream and made it work. And what they did then was to build a place which seems to illustrate, as in a child__ primer, that the production ethic led step by step to unhappiness, to restrictiveness, to entrapment in the mechanics of living.
Joan Didion Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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More than anyone else in the society, these men had apparently dreamed the dream and made it work. And what they did then was to build a place which seems to illustrate, as in a child__ primer, that the production ethic led step by step to unhappiness, to restrictiveness, to entrapment in the mechanics of living.
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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