… is from page 18 of the 1983 collection of some of the writings of the late G. Warren Nutter, entitled Political Economy and Freedom; specifically, it’s from Nutter’s 1974 essay “Freedom in a Revolutionary Economy”:
More fundamentally, something must be wrong in a society that feels compelled to treat each new problem, no matter how routine, as a monumental crisis and hence chooses to live in a continual atmosphere of tension, sacrifice, and fear.
