Responding to this post, a Facebook correspondent writes:
Not at all what I expected to read based on your intro above. Yes, I believe we are on a collision course with a dystopic future because of the unrelenting pursuit of nothing but more and more money by corporations and many of the wealthiest individuals. The quotes about the purpose of work and life, and the remark about the firewall between advertising and editorial say it all. The Star Tribune or NBC News may not know it, but breaking that wall down will guarantee their ultimate demise.
Only if the wall stays down. The stubborn, hardcore money chasers will finish in collapse; the intelligent will realize the mistake and fix it. In time? Hard to say.
And it’s that flexibility which makes me wonder about a dystopic future, at least the sort based on a pathological society, because we do have the capacity to change as reality rubs our noses in the pig shit. And that’s what worries me about the fundamentalists, because they’ve renounced any belief in reality, at least as I understand it, in favor of a full blown, literal belief in a fantasy. It may be a fantasy full of good lessons, but a literal belief in a fantasy is, nonetheless, a recipe for disaster.
(And I do agree, the intro may have been misleading – but it was a hard to summarize review. The writing was dense and a little left-academic, which annoys me, and the presentation itself needs to be reworked. All that led me to scan more than read. I even considered writing a blog post just on the writing style and presentation, but I decided that would be a waste of time. I’ve never been impressed by how the Left learns. They’ve always, always struck me as a bunch of know-it-alls, which is not only a hard way to run one’s life, but loses all the grandeur of the surprises of life.) <shutting up now>
