"In the society of well-being men are reduced to the simple economistic dimension of mere instruments for an activity that is not ordered to anything else. Hence the tedium that assaults man in this society as soon as he leaves his work place; the feeling of falling into a void,

into complete irrationality, and also the agonism and activism that mark this society: the other is reduced to a bundle of needs that must be satisfied, or rather that must be artificially multiplied, so that the subject may affirm itself.

This lack of a communication of universal values has the effect that the subject cannot feel to be a subject except in an exasperate individual search for the superfluous."

(DN, "The problem of atheism")