Buy a ticket and you might win the lottery. That's what the modern man's role is in society. Just play the game, join the system, take part in the rat race. The modern world as a result of industrialisation and capitalism saw modern man standing in line in a factory adding a cog to each good produced, you just waited till the conveyor belt brought the good to you and repeated the action ad infinitum. A good illustration of this is Chaplin's Modern Times. But as capitalism's reach has grown the modern man has been trapped in this action that preserves the overall status quo. People can only dream of escape - they can only worry about the small stuff, join the line at the bank, in the airports, at the supermarket, keep coming to work and hope for that lottery - the promise of escape that will never come.
Buy a ticket and you might win the lottery. That's what the modern man's role is in society. Just play the game, join the system, take part in the rat race. The modern world as a result of industrialisation and capitalism saw modern man standing in line in a factory adding a cog to each good produced, you just waited till the conveyor belt brought the good to you and repeated the action ad infinitum. A good illustration of this is Chaplin's Modern Times. But as capitalism's reach has grown the modern man has been trapped in this action that preserves the overall status quo. People can only dream of escape - they can only worry about the small stuff, join the line at the bank, in the airports, at the supermarket, keep coming to work and hope for that lottery - the promise of escape that will never come.