Rationalization of everyday life

"Damned Beaver/Jeremy is the War, he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made--that we are meant for work and government, for austerity: and these shall take priority over love, dreams, the spirit, the senses, and other second-class trivia that are found among the idle and mindless hours of the day" Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

Like a Bible, this text, and if this quotation is a bit much, so be it; speaks to the dim routinization of life demanded by the industrial state. Ostensibly, the book is about War, but he's after Postwar, the widening gyres of bureaucratic rationality that gradually encompass all human endeavor: everything measured, as in The Postmodern Condition....