Sublime

Hence, let me rehearse what I demonstrated in systematic detail in chapter 5: there is only one fundamental definition of capitalism. Capitalism is a historical form of life in which wage labor is the foundation of social wealth. We live in a global capitalist world because all of us depend for our survival on the social wealth generated by wage

some churches nowadays actively condemn modern gym culture as an overcelebration of the self as opposed to God.

The law had no greater validity than any other aspect of the political process: ‘the question of legality or illegality reduces itself . . . for the Communist Party to a mere question of tactics,’ he wrote, adding that ‘in this wholly unprincipled solution lies the only possible practical and principled rejection of the bourgeois legal system’.5

is time to abandon the pessimism, crippled ambition and human-hating of Heidegger, Adorno, the Counter-Enlightenment, the postmodernist academy and the primitivist left to return to the essence of socialist humanism: a celebration of our species’ proven capacity for moral and material improvement.

An obsession with utility is high time preference and selfishness incarnate. It is a maximization of flow and a rejection of stock. It is a worship of consumption yet a disregard for investment. Scruton captures the essential long-termism of a proper appreciation of beauty wonderfully: “Put usefulness first and you lose it. Put beauty first and