The Industrial Revolution was merely the beginning of a revolution as extreme and radical as ever inflamed the minds of sectarians, but the new creed was utterly materialistic and believed that all human problems could be resolved given an unlimited amount of material commodities.
― Karl Polanyi
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Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to the man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Violence is glorified, commodified, and endlessly recycled. The same society that censors books sells bullets by the box. Music, films, and news alike turn killing into entertainment, then wonder why empathy has eroded. This is not an argument for censorship but for conscience. Art shapes appetite. When cruelty becomes content, compassion vanishes.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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Americans don’t just disagree on policy anymore. They disagree on reality. They disagree on who and what deserves trust. They are, in measurable statistical terms, living in different countries while sharing the same zip codes.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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Could this be the end of the West as we know it? | The Economist
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The 10 largest companies on the 1960 Fortune 500 list via CNN Money:
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