The Problems of Prosperity and Advancement

In a world of unprecedented material prosperity and technological advancement, the biggest intellectual problem is not "hyper-rationalism", but hyper-infantilism, the biggest moral problem is not greed and workaholism, but envy and parasitism, the biggest aesthetic problem is not artistic laziness, but pseudo-artistic bustle, and the biggest spiritual problem is not the profane treatment of the sacred, but the sacred treatment of the profane.