I am re-introducing a cognitive theme in today’s essay: how the modern world is held together by a cluster of virtues and vices, all supported by commodities and technologies. We have heard of the Protestant Ethic that makes people of Western European origin hard working and productive. We have also heard of the Irrational Exuberance that leads to Stock Market Bubbles. One is a virtue and the other is a vice (which one though?). How does this modern system shape our virtues and vices and how is it shaped by them in turn? Inquiring into these gives us a hint as to how our world is constituted and how it often deviates from its own stated outcomes.
TGL4: Commodity Imperialism
TGL4: Commodity Imperialism
TGL4: Commodity Imperialism
I am re-introducing a cognitive theme in today’s essay: how the modern world is held together by a cluster of virtues and vices, all supported by commodities and technologies. We have heard of the Protestant Ethic that makes people of Western European origin hard working and productive. We have also heard of the Irrational Exuberance that leads to Stock Market Bubbles. One is a virtue and the other is a vice (which one though?). How does this modern system shape our virtues and vices and how is it shaped by them in turn? Inquiring into these gives us a hint as to how our world is constituted and how it often deviates from its own stated outcomes.