I understand the point your making Geoffrey. Everything you say about the way people feel (legitimatly as well) rings exactly the same as pre war europe. Disillusionment with capitalism, lack of community...hitler exploited this by coming up with an answer to the exact same issues you highlight. I think though that it is a pandoras box, you can't control it. Consumption and the humanity that generates it has to be let run it's course. You have to let it run and see what happens. Trying to restrict it will end in disaster. We have the past to prove that.
Read that.
"Scolars now recognize the role of both fascism and modernist aesthetics in the emergence of an anti-enlightenment movements opposed to to the democratic tradition that was the heritage of the Englightment thought. Indeed, the rise of fascism in Europe responded to a widespread search for spiritual values and organic institutions, capable of counteracting what was considered the corrosive effects of capitalism and rationalism on the body politic."
The only future is the future.
Read that.
"Scolars now recognize the role of both fascism and modernist aesthetics in the emergence of an anti-enlightenment movements opposed to to the democratic tradition that was the heritage of the Englightment thought. Indeed, the rise of fascism in Europe responded to a widespread search for spiritual values and organic institutions, capable of counteracting what was considered the corrosive effects of capitalism and rationalism on the body politic."
The only future is the future.
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