Dr. Hemingstam, a psychiatrist, stated that his symptoms were characterized by difficulties in concentrating lack of appetite feelings of agony restlessness nightmares and hallucinations with impulses to commit suicide.

But the downside of this aspirational language and philosophy can be a perpetual, personal restlessness. Many men and women in the rest of the world especially in the developing world observe this in us and are ambivalent about it.

Self inflicted austerity has met popular restlessness for more tangible measures to revive economic growth and create jobs. Protesters vividly express widespread frustration with deepening inequality, and condemnation of privileges of a global financial elite comes uncomfortably close to implicating government.