Dumas-inspired thoughts.
Currently reading: Count of Monte CristoNew word cherishedly learnt: "bourgeoisie"
(I particularly like saying it)
From Wikipedia...
"Concepts such as personal liberties, religious, and civil rights, and free trade all derive from bourgeois philosophies.
But the bourgeoisie was never without its critics; it was first accused of narrow-mindedness, materialism, hypocrisy, opposition to change, and lack of culture, among other things... its banality and mercenary aspirations."
From today, a SMH book review on "The Triumph of the Airhead an th Retreat from Commonsense"...
"According to Gare (the author), there are seven key features of the contemporary airhead: insatiable consumerism, obsession with statistics, an aversion to reading books, selfishness, short-term thinking, love of theory and jargon and a tendency to bully.
Other telltale trats are pride in ignorance, dislike of the serious and the absence of contrition if things go wrong."
You know, people often blame capitalism for the way people are now. But it's a chicken-egg argument - who created capitalism? People. Consumer demand. People wanted this. If you think it's ugly and selfish, self-seeking, self-absorbed, it's because that's who we really are.
It's not a revelation in political ideology. It's not about communism vs free trade. It's about the exaltation of self, it's about human pride and selfishness.
It's a revelation in theology.
posted by me. @ 9:56 AM
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