Under the heading of "nobody promised us easy," WRM continues to bang his drum about the end of the "blue social model." Full, read-worthy, "A Crisis of Civilization" essay is here (for a continuing education, read through the comments section). An excerpt is here:
" There is no such thing as a developed country. No country on earth has reached a stable end state; there is no such thing as a comfortable retirement from the stresses and storms of history and of change. France, America, Germany, Japan: we thought we had found a permanent solution to all economic and social questions..........We hadn’t."
Perhaps I am just seeking confirmation of my own bias, but Mead's recent essays on the subject would seem to inform that, while it is broadly human nature to seek economic security and ease, history and experience tells us such security and ease cannot be permanent. Neither can they be granted: They have to be earned - daily. Mead concludes:
"And it is raving lunacy to expect that there is some master plan that can reveal the shape of the new society and show us how to achieve it. That isn’t what life at the cutting edge of history is ever like. The challenge of our time is invention, not implementation. The future doesn’t exist yet; we have to make it up."
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