Selected aphorisms — It is probable that many cultures disappeared in a similar fashion,

Flow Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi One of the consequences of slavery, oppression, exploitation, and the destruction of cultural values is the elimination of enjoyment. When the now extinct natives of the Caribbean islands were put to work in the plantations of the conquering Spaniards, their lives became so painful and meaningless that they lost interest in survival, and eventually ceased reproducing.