Tühi vihmamantel

«For me, the empty raincoat is a symbol of our most pressing paradox. If economic progress means that we become nameless cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty story. The complex goal is to prove that this paradox can be dealt with.»

From the author’s preface: «We were not destined to become empty raincoats, nameless numbers on a paycheck, job fillers, raw materials for economics or sociology, statistics in some economic report. If that is the price, then economic progress is an empty promise. Life must be more than a cog in a great machine that is going somewhere, God knows where, that belongs to someone else. The challenge is to prove that the paradox can be dealt with, that you and I, each of us, can fill an empty raincoat.»