It seems so, and specifically, facilitating the divorce between capitalism and democracy celebrated by contemporary myths of American freedom and prosperity. A marriage that is extinguished after a century and a half of happy cohabitation.
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BY SIMONE BANDINI “(Europe) is a bourgeois and individualistic continent preoccupied with its refrigerator.” Albert Camus, speaking in Athens 28th April 1955. In 1955 Albert Camus was incredibly – and today I add miserably – prophetic. Post-bourgeois nihilism has brought us to extreme consequences in technocratic, rationalist and materialistic thinking. That the […]
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