Comment by 4gotunameagain
2 months ago
The shift would take a massive culture shift.
Everything and everyone seem to only be concerned about money. In music, in art, in popular culture, in the contemporary "thought leaders"..
It was the inevitable but hard to predict outcome of capitalism, the utter dissolution of everything that cannot be converted to capital, and the monetisation of everything else that could.
The zeitgeist is a thin, inconsistent and ever changing set of ethics (which of course are also swayed wildly by capital) and everything else is about money.
All the previous values are not only waining, they are also mocked.
A lack of greed is considered a lack of ambition, piety is disregarded as antiquated and evil, honour and shame are non existent.
We are living through tremendous sociopolitical changes, the most substantial and the most high paced humanity has ever faced.
I just hope it goes the right way eventually, although it is almost certain that none of us will be here to witness it. The only thing we can do is surf the wave and do our best to make things better.
> It was the inevitable but hard to predict outcome of capitalism
I think it was not hard to predict, and in fact it was actually predicted in countless pieces, criticising capitalism.