From Inside Higher Ed’s Epiphany: “The disease, methinks, is that we’ve grown blind to our own best interests, both individually and as a culture. We’ve become focused almost exclusively on chasing more and more stuff we don’t need (or even want), and the money to buy it. Our consensus measure of good-and-bad is some combination of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Gross Domestic Product. We’ve bought into the idea that the purpose of the society is to support the economy, and the purpose of the economy is to grow. Period.” [Hat tip to Jesse for the link].