Comment by bshepard
6 hours ago
Anxiety over commodification is very, very old, and tends to miss the upsides of commercial society. Intellectuals, by our nature, focus on problems -- often to the point of creating problems where (perhaps) there were none before. Happily "dopamine fracking" will probably not metamorphose into another menacing sounding anti-commercial phrase. There are enough already.
If you are sympathetic, or even curious, about the advantages of commercial society Deirdre Mccloskey's bourgeoise trilogy is an excellent place to begin.
You could argue that anxiety over climate change is somewhat old, and yet I'd argue that there's ever more evidence the problem is real. Just because the direction of travel was identified a long time ago, it doesn't mean that it's desirable or impossible to change.
It is noteworthy that this is a German source and German culture is by default pessimism and malaise.
That would be more of a Russian worldview
German culture is more or a romanticist "Sturm und Drang" kind
As per info on the site, author is not German and does not live in Germany (Russian living in Poland). Apparently, his name however is "German".