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Capitalism Is Not Responsible for Materialism

Capitalism Is Not Responsible for Materialism

Instead, maybe we should look in the mirror.

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Christopher Cook
Feb 27, 2024
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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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