When a society suffers from anomie, flow is made difficult because

it is not clear what is worth investing psychic energy in; when it suffers·1 quotes

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goals. A worker who in order to feed himself and his family must perform the same meaningless task hundreds of times on an assembly line is likely to be alienated. In socialist countries one of the most irritating sources of alienation is the necessity to spend much of one’s free time waiting in line for food, for clothing, for entertainment, or for endless bureaucratic clearances.