(Just yesterday, a university economics professor said that confronting and addressing climate change was all about understanding and repairing our relationship with money and this story suggests that his argument was correct and puts the onus on each of us to better filter out the detritus of life - Robert McLean)
A (successful) American politician who cries: “God is a white supremacist!” Neo-nazis in the Bundestag. The extreme right rising in Italy. Poland’s authoritarians purging its Supreme Court.
How did we get here? To a world where the forces of intolerance and indecency are on the rise, and those of decency, wisdom, and civilization are waning? Is something like a new Dark Age falling?
I think it has everything to do with predatory capitalism, and so I want to tell you a story. Of how it came to be born, in four steps, which span three decades.
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