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"What is the
elephant in all our rooms?
The global triumph
of capitalism.
Democracy is fiercely disputed.
Freedom is under threat, even in old democracies
like Britain.
Western supremacy is on the skids.
But everyone
does capitalism.
Does the
lack of a clear ideological alternative mean
that capitalism's triumph is secure?
Far from it.
For a start, the
history of
capitalism hardly supports the
opinion that
capitalism is an automatically
self-correcting system.
Global markets are
now more than ever constantly out of equilibrium - and teetering on the edge
of a larger disequilibrium.
Again and again,
capitalism has needed the visible
hands of political, fiscal and legal correction
to complement the invisible hand of the
market.
Karl Marx thought
capitalism would have a problem
finding consumers for the goods that
improving techniques of production enabled it to churn out.
Instead, it
has become expert in a new branch of
manufacturing: the manufacture of desires.
It's that core logic of ever-expanding
desires that is unsustainable on a
global scale." - Timothy Garton Ash
"Capitalism has defeated
communism. It is now well on its way to
defeating democracy." - David
Korten"Much of modern industrial culture has been built upon the
premise of perpetual material growth. The human world is beyond its limits. The
present way of doing things is unsustainable. The
future, to be viable at all, must be one of drawing back, easing down, healing.
Sustainability, not better weapons or
struggles for power or material accumulation,
is the ultimate challenge to the energy and creativity of the human race.
The deepest difference between optimists and pessimists is their
position in the debate about whether human beings are able to operate
collectively from a basis of love.
In a
society that systematically develops in people
their individualism, their competitiveness, and their
cynicism, the pessimists are the vast
majority. That pessimism is the single greatest problem of the current
social system and the deepest cause of
unsustainability.
A culture that cannot
believe in, discuss, and develop the best human
qualities is one that suffers from a tragic
distortion of information. "
- Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L.
Meadows, and Jørgen Randers |
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