source of your meaning or hope, there are no alternative sources to turn to. It breaks your spirit. What is the cause of this “strange melancholy” that permeates our society even during boom times of frenetic activity, and which turns to outright despair when prosperity diminishes? De Tocqueville says it comes from taking some “incomplete joy of this world” and building your entire life on it. That is the definition of idolatry. To contemporary people the word idolatry