Thursday, 20 September 2007

Against capitalist pragmatism

The more sophisticated the rationalisation offered for patently sub-optimal circumstances, the more evil there is to hide. If something that strikes you as bad is presented as better than all the alternatives, then you know that evil is afoot because you are effectively being discouraged from asking how things got so bad in the first place.

- Steve Fuller, The Intellectual

1 comment:

poetrytrans said...

Thank you!! This is close to my heart at this very minute - please check http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23809248-2,00.html. The fact that there are no questions as to WHY is baffling to me.