updated 6mo ago
The fall of the intellectual
Generations of intellectuals have turned away from the future, dispirited at best, cynical at worst.
from Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination by Geoff Mulgan
- “More and more young, intellectually inclined, and politically heterodox thinkers are showing disillusionment with the contemporary faith in technocracy and personal autonomy. They see this combination as having contributed to the fundamentally alienating character of modern Western life. The chipper, distinctly liberal optimism of rationalist cult... See more
from The Noetic Future of Culture and Brands by Zach Lamb
Horizons have shrunk. Novelists and filmmakers seem far more at home with dystopias than with the possibility that the world might get better. The institutions that once fuelled our shared imagination have, for different reasons, given up, leaving public intellectual culture recycling old ideas, while much of politics has drifted into nostalgia.
from Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination by Geoff Mulgan