The failed existential experiment.

Perhaps an important  event in the last century is the birth and death of existentialism.  It's birth was an inevitable consequence of the death of God.  But on what do we blame it death?

Existentialism tried to burst out of its negativist shell into a positive world and take a positive form.  As we know anything that takes positive form is inevitably subject to the degradation of existence. This is especially true if that existence is contingent on humanity; culturally, in this instance.  Anything that should take form must rely on solids and as any existentialist would know there are very few things that are solid. 

Purpose through business

Concerning the middle class malayali:
Our generation it seems, gains a certain sense of self esteem in being a working cog in the business machinery (Here the oft repeated  narratives of the hard working Japanese from our school days  comes to mind) . It would seem like our previous generation gained self esteem from a similar narrative of their own. They saw themselves as more of the cog in the collective socialist engine.  Being a cog seems to be the common motif. If we venture further back,  the cog might have been of a social engine. 

What will it be engine of the coming generation.