Crossword-Solution: POSTINDUSTRIAL 14 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

In the agricultural age, women conceived younger and had many more children because children were economic assets as workers on the farm. In the postindustrial age, children are emotional assets but economic liabilities, costing both a middle-class husband and wife or a single parent over $10,000 a year.

There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but storieslike this one — and there are thousands — can inform the myth or mythswe create for building and preserving the next culture. In order to do so, however, we must recognize that we cannot live without myth, for it is anessential part of our humanity. If we attempt to do so — given the fact thatsomething in us needs myth — wewill only create more myths that echothe American dream — with themes of heroism, gr…

It's not Americans I find annoying; it's Americanism: a social disease of the postindustrial world that must inevitably infect each of the mercantile nations in turn, and is called 'American' only because your nation is the most advanced case of the malady, much as one speaks of Spanish flu, or Japanese Type-B encephalitis. It's symptoms are a loss of work ethic, a shrinking of inner resources, and a constant need for external stimulation, followed by spiritual decay and mora…