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ljm2002

(10,751 posts)
7. A wonderful article...
Mon Apr 30, 2012, 01:46 PM
Apr 2012

...I am liking Chris Hedges more and more.

The bottom line is the capitalist imperatives of unlimited growth and unlimited consumption are killing us. The side effects of capitalism include killing the arts and artistic impulses, i.e. killing our souls.

Maybe it sounds extreme. I think what's happening right now is extreme, so it's refreshing to read a well-reasoned essay that acknowledges that reality.

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They all wipe out what they don't like with too much ease for me. Bandit Apr 2012 #4
Excuse me, but exactly how is Hedges "romanticizing" these civilizations? He's contrasting coalition_unwilling Apr 2012 #9
"the cult of the self" alcibiades_mystery Apr 2012 #3
What? Whiskeytide Apr 2012 #5
K&R raouldukelives Apr 2012 #6
A wonderful article... ljm2002 Apr 2012 #7
k&r Starry Messenger Apr 2012 #8
Wordsworth said it 200 years ago: coalition_unwilling Apr 2012 #10
Not only are they going to bankrupt the nation, they seek to kill the very ideas Egalitarian Thug Apr 2012 #11
I know this will not be popular... nadinbrzezinski Apr 2012 #12
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