" characteristics of our times: loneliness, the feeling of not being of value as persons, and the experience of not being able to love and be loved, despite the common need, the common effort, and the common but temporary respite provided by alcohol. The sources of the anxiety are to be found in certain basic trends in our culture, one of which, for Auden, is the pressure toward conformity which occurs in a world where commercial and mechanical values are apotheosized: “We move on As the wheel wills; one revolution Registers all things, the rise and fall In pay and prices....{ "

― Rollo May , The Meaning of Anxiety