There is is nothing new under the sun. The earnest and the jaded and the broken are being made an old promise:
“You can turn a trick. Look past your self-contempt. Drown your insecurities in lucre. Work hard. Find redemption in the gold rush. Win the envy of your peers.
Here is a new justification for your existence. And another. And another. You are not what you feared. You can become someone else.
No one will find out—the alibis are endless: the striving for greatness, the march of history, the torrential passion, the curse of knowledge, the potential of the new forms, the engines of growth.”