Online report of the Progressive Review. Since 1964, the news while there's still time to do something about it.
December 19, 2014
Pocket paradigms
With the election of Reagan, this country
began to turn its back on values that had sustained it throughout
its first two centuries - values that included balancing power
and wealth with concern for, cooperation with, and compassion
towards others in the community we called America. In their place
came a psychotic faith in the ubiquitous virtue of the market,
a faith almost creationist in its absence of objective foundation,
intellectually barren when not actually dishonest, and as monomaniacal
as the creed of the religious fundamentalist. Every other aspect
of existence - religion, family, morality, creativity, politics,
community, tradition, ethnicity - was declared merely a byproduct
of the marketplace. For the first time in our history, the self-serving
delusions of the privileged few became the standard for the whole
nation, propagated in politics, on campuses and in the media. - Sam Smith
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