“The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.”

I know what you mean. The powers-that-be are squeezing us again and again, while the next generation is being conditioned to embrace this servitude. And the masses of sheep hold the rest of us in line by insisting we ALL be shorn and eventually 'used' and processed. Desperation only just begins to describe our situation.