Last night I went and saw Henry Rollins on his current spoken word tour. I was completely blown away, when at one point, he started talking about how disturbing it is that young people these days are so anti-emotion. He said he wondered if it was some social darwinism capitalist kind of way of creating generations of humans who perform at maximum productivity to the system.
In a word, a way of making people most like machines. Was pretty poignant to have read your post, and then hear Hank talkin' 'bout the same thing. 'Guess great minds really do think alike. By the way, if any of you get the chance to see him on this tour, do. *Highly* recommended!