"... I am going to substitute the acronym NMI, the new monastic individual. NMIs... make up the class of people that belong to no class, have no membership in a hierarchy. They form a kind of "unmonied aristocracy," free of bosses, supervision, and what is typically called "work."They work very hard, in fact, but as they love their work and do it for its intrinsic interest, this work is not much different from play. In the context of contemporary American culture, such people are an anomaly, for they have no interest in the world of business success and mass consumerism.
from Morris Berman, "The Twilight of American Culture" pp. 135-6 ---
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