That's the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn't just ask you to only be selfish and not care about others. It tells you that by being selfish, you are helping others. And, in fact, by trying to directly help others, you will hurt them.
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
One shouldn't gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious.
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?