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… is from page 231 of George Will’s hot-off-the-press 2021 book, American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020 [2] – a collection of many of his columns over these years; (the column [3] from which the quotation below is drawn was originally published in the Washington Post on September 18th, 2015):
[Pope] Francis deplores “compulsive consumerism,” a sin to which the 1.3 billion persons without even electricity can only aspire. He leaves the Vatican to jet around praising subsistence farming, a romance best enjoyed from 30,000 feet above the realities that such farmers yearn to escape.