Capitalism Is Not Responsible for Materialism
Instead, maybe we should look in the mirror.
Over the last ten years or so, a trope keeps reemerging in conversations, both with people I know and in the broader national conversation. Boiled down to its essentials, it goes something like this:
Our society today is too atomized, materialistic, and shallow. Modernity is a mess.
What caused modernity? The Enlightenment.
What caused our current conditi…
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