You raise up your head
And you ask, Is this where it is?
And somebody points to you
And says, It's his,
And you say, What's mine?
And somebody else says, Well, what is?,
And you say, Oh, my God,
Am I here all alone?
But something is happening
And you don't know what it is,
Do you, Mr. Jones?
—Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man
HE does not. The straight middle-class American breadwinner, secure and affluent beyond the dreams of his grandparents or most of his contemporaries elsewhere...