meaningful form of work to pursue.
             Henry Adams, writing at the last turn of the century, would make
             this contrast in his work "The Dynamo and the Virgin", for his comparison
             of the power of the new age of the machine in America and the ancient
             power of the goddess in the Old World is simply another phrasing of this
             same dilemma. The Christian argues that we saved by our belief in the
             divine; both Marx and the Dynamo argued that such belief will be our
             Under the first model, the idea of a society in which technological
             advances allow us to fill our days with leisure is certainly appealing,
             for by doing so we come closer to the idea of paradise, redeeming through
             our intelligence (and thereby through the machines that we have developed
             to help us) some portion of paradise lost. Under the second model, the
             leisured society takes us farther from paradise, closer to the state of
             the damned and the lost. Given how hard people work in the 21st century,
             even in affluent countries like th
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