there are three subspecies of modern men of the new millennium : one that is happy , lives in a provincial effervescence of romanticism in which the world is good because their lives are such , and whose perfect lives are sanctioned by the gods ; those who are near destitute whose lives just consist of scavenging and survival , and the intellectuals who are empathic to suffering in all quarters and whose only analgesic is in some degree of judicial altruism .