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I have finished @Chris_arnade 's excellent book "Dignity." I think its profound intuition is how the "misery of the rooted" is specular to the "uprootedness of the successful." They are just two sides of the same phenomenon.
Namely, the ideology of the technocratic/affluent society. Having denied theoretically (scientism) and practically (bourgeois happiness) any ideal dimension/transcendence, it offers its people two irreconcilable sequences
either science-credentials-professional success-cosmopolitanism or religion-subsistence economy-localism. The utopia was that the first would gradually absorb the second. In fact they are both failing, the first because it is inhuman, the second because it is disfunctional.
What is moving about the book is that, rather than moralizing or dreaming of political solutions, in the encounter with the humanity of the people in the "back-row" the author discovers his own uprootedness, so to speak.
In that sense, "Dignity" (2019) should be read together with two other books spaced exactly 38 years apart: Weil's "The Need for Roots" (1943 prophecy of the uprooting) and Lebedoff's "The New Elite (1981 description of the uprooting in American society).
