Esacpe

"  I don't like the thing that's happening to people "
" What ?"
" I don't know, but I have watched them for twenty years and I have seen the change . They used to rush through here and it was wonderful to watch , It was 
hurry of men who knew where they are going and were eager to get there.Now 
they are hurrying because they are afraid. Its not a purpose which drives them.
Its a fear. they are not going  anywhere, they are escaping, and I don't think they
know what is it that they want to escape. They don't look at one another. 
They jerk when brushed against. They smile too much but its an ugly kind of smiling.
It's not joy, its pleading. I don't know  what it is that's happening to the world"

Atlas shrugged , Ayan Rand