We pay a price for this [modern] kind of progress. We have lost much that quickens the heart and nurtures the imagination. Our arts are marginalized as never before. Education has been reduced to information gathering and training. Medicine neglects the soul and spirit, and focuses exclusively on the purely physical dimensions of the person, using only mechanical and chemical means of healing. Politics appears obsessed with power and money instead of genuine needs of communities. All of these aspects of modern life wound the soul and therefore decrease our humanity.
— Thomas Moore, The Education of the Heart