A very cool thing from Time online. Vent your spleen.

Thus for all their differences, the dominant mood in both societies is one of bewilderment. In the US, the cultural legitimation of capitalism has been so given over to consumption as a quasi-spiritual act that the prospect of its disappearance, of the elevator to nowhere suddenly reaching the top, cannot really be assimilated to current experience. In the UK, the social contract that Labour would run a social market, emphasis on the latter, society and that growing wage inequality would be compensated for by vast improvements in education, health, urban amenity, has barely been borne out – and now appears to be dead-stopped in its tracks.