Industrial modernity has not provided for the basic needs of a shamefully large percentage of the world’s population who go hungry and thirsty, or who are denied education and leisure. But the radical argument goes beyond the liberal, distributional critique that industrial modernity is fine, but its benefits need to be more fairly shared; instead it argues that the goals of industrial modernity are flawed in themselves, and that both ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ are actually losing. From this perspective, the world’s wealthier groups are condemned to a world of constant unfulfilled yearning for an ever-receding horizon of material possessions and lifestyles, producing individual and social dislocation and stress, while being complicit in the creation of ecological damage and poverty for exploited peoples and lands around the world.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 14:34:58 +0000
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