“It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (such as an open highway) in the aggregate becomes a nightmare.”

—  Daniel Bell , book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Introduction, The Disjunction of Realms, p. 21
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

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