“The problem with books like these three is that they focus almost entirely on what we can do as individuals to get more satisfaction out of our lives. The social and economic structures within which we operate are just taken as given. Organizing the advice being offered in this way may make it easier for us to settle for social and economic structures that are in fact destructive — even intolerable. The dilemma here is palpable: take my advice and you can meliorate inhumane and inhuman living conditions. But the result is that you learn to tolerate what should not be tolerated.”