The snare in which humanity has been caught is an economics—great industry and commerce in service to great markets, with ethical restraint and respect for the distinctiveness of cultures, including our own, having fallen away in eager deference to profitability....The prestige of what was until very lately the world economic order lingers on despite the fact that the system itself is now revealed as a tenuous set of arrangements that have been highly profitable for some people but gravely damaging to the world.
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Life in the COVID-19 Age
Labels:
21st Century,
affluence,
America,
capitalism,
civilization,
class,
economics,
fairness,
globalization,
government,
happiness,
illusion,
inequality,
justice,
learning,
liberalism,
modernity,
money,
oligarchy,
politics
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