“Unless we can bring men back to enjoying the daily life that moderns call a dull life, our whole civilization will be in ruins in about fifteen years. [...] Unless we can make daybreak and daily bread and the creative secrets of labour interesting in themselves, there will fall on all our civilisation a fatigue which is the one disease from which civilisations do not recover. So died the great Pagan Civilisation; of bread and circuses and forgetfulness of the household gods.” (G. K. Chesterton, from an article published in The Listener in 1934. Note that the Second World War would begin five years later.)