Sublime

He had also been working out a new theory of economics that attempted to push back against the worst dehumanizing effects of industrialization.

I’m often reminded of what a Chinese politician said in the 1970s when asked about the effects of the French Revolution of 1789. ‘It’s a little too soon to say,’ he allegedly responded.62

THE PRODUCTION OF TOO MANY USEFUL THINGS RESULTS IN TOO MANY USELESS PEOPLE. KARL MARX

The central committee of the Communist Party just could not deal with the rapidly changing world of the late twentieth century.

Rather than standing athwart history yelling “stop,” as the postwar conservative William F. Buckley urged, or questioning the whole system of constant growth and military one-upsmanship that drove such roiling change, they formulated a model of human nature consistent with it.