The Implosion of Capitalism - Chris Hedges

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7. Reads like a Luddite manifesto

Science is a tool, and he's blaming the wrench because it didn't turn without him.

You attack science, you lose me. I personally have no problems doing away with ancient superstitions i.e. ambiguity and mystery. Science tells us the earth is 4 billion years old. It took 3 billion for life to start and another billion for us to appear. How valuable is life? Nothing has more value.

The failure isn't science, rather society as a whole and what it places value upon. Even before science, people destroyed their environment. before science, there were the plebeians and the patriciains. And the patricians did everything to get a leg up on their fellow patricians that they could, exploiting everyone they could, including slavery. The Romans drove a species of African panther to extinction with their games, paid for by the patricians.

If you participate in shallow culture, you're to blame.

I personally wince every time I see someone desperate to be on TV or famous.

It's pathetic and sad, and really tells you how this culture is.