Ill Fares The Land

'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,  Where wealth accumulates, and men decay'  - Oliver Goldsmith   Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever remains of our sense of shared purpose. But we have forgotten how to think about the life we live together: its goals and purposes. We are now not only post-ideological; we