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The Perils Of Smashing The Past
- Reestablishing a common sense of belonging and ownership of the future in this way is the precondition for “taking back control.”
from The Perils Of Smashing The Past by Nathan Gardels
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- In their enthusiasm to smash the past, what the futurists didn’t see was how the broken social pieces would seek shelter from the storm by re-forming through identity politics that ended up in the fascist movements that fomented world war. That is something to ponder in our own fraught time of fragmentation.
from The Perils Of Smashing The Past by Nathan Gardels
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- Rather, the new territory of the future is described by philosophers as “plastic” or “liquid,” shapelessly shifting as each disruptive innovation or abandoned certitude washes away whatever fleeting sense of meaning that was only just embraced. A kind of foreboding of the times that have not yet arrived, a wariness about what’s next, settles in.
from The Perils Of Smashing The Past by Nathan Gardels
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- The fearful and fearsome reaction against growing inequality, social dislocation and loss of common identity in the midst of today’s vast wealth creation, unprecedented mobility and ubiquitous connectivity is a mutiny, really, against globalization so audacious and technological change so rapid that it can barely be absorbed by our incremental natu... See more
from The Perils Of Smashing The Past by Nathan Gardels
Keely Adler added 2y ago