What Escape?

Is there any escape for us in our mass society? Or are we doomed to be puppets, fated to be lulled into a false contentment by the provision of "bread and circuses"?

The prophet Islah has a word of peculiar relevance for our contemporary situation: "I have called thee by name: thou art mine." God calls men out of a meaningless existence into personal fellowship with Himself. Life has a meaning, a purpone, when we feel we belong somewhere or to someone. God calls in not in a mass, but individually, "by name".