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  • Andrey Karabanovhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    Communism is luxurious – or it isn’t communism.
  • Andrey Karabanovhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    Meanwhile 69 per cent of the world’s freshwater withdrawals are committed to agriculture, most of which is in meat production, with the average cow consuming 11,000 gallons of water a year.
  • Andrey Karabanovhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    ‘What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.’
  • Andrey Karabanovhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    Fukuyama’s contention was that, while clocks would still tick and years continue to roll by, no new ideas would emerge, at least none capable of challenging the status quo.
  • Andrey Karabanovhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    liberal capitalism went from a contingent project to a reality principle. Welcome to the world of capitalist realism – where the map is the territory and nothing really matters.
  • Andrey Karabanovhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    Capitalist realism is best summed up with a single sentence: ‘It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.’
  • Andrey Karabanovhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    capitalist realism has no offer of a better future – especially so over the course of the last decade – its default logic is one of anti-utopianism. Flat wages, falling home ownership and a warming planet might be bad, granted, but at least we have iPhones.

    Run of the mill "now is the greatest time to be alive" Obamism

  • Andrey Karabanovhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    depression expected to be the leading cause of the global burden of disease by 2030.
  • Andrey Karabanovhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    As the state gives way to the market this is accompanied by a nebulous sense of loss, as a crisis of representation empties democratic institutions of authority and citizens come to view them as little more than conduits for the interests of corrupt elites.
  • Andrey Karabanovhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    This condition presents arguably the most pressing crisis of all: an absence of collective imagination.
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