I actually discuss this issue in a forthcoming episode of @onbeing with the brilliant @kristatippett. How plutocracy has benefited from the loss of countervailing vocabularies -- community, faith -- that could stand in healthy tension with that of profit.
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lol, ya, no religions or priests in the history of the world ever used their position to set themselves up as a ruling class....
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Nah. I'm not buying that they had ever had one.
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Literature started dealing with this in the 18thC, and put up a pretty heroic fight for a couple hundred years. But for obvious reasons it is excluded from the subsidized job training services that the state and business agree to consider the sole useful function of education.
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It got harder and harder to hear what literature said about it because capitalism keeps saying, louder and at more and more outlets, that all possible human commitments are secondary to the enlargement of capital.
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True. The more interesting question is how to bring forth camraderie and caring in an increasingly atomized world, where loneliness and depression are rampant.
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