A very warm morning, and a slow 30 minute run.
The news seems particularly tedious today, so back to the metanarrative. According to the theory of dialectical materialism, every economic hegemony contains the contradictions which lead eventually to its own destruction, and change happens through a process of thesis/antithesis/synthesis. That romantic old optimist, Marx, assumed that the synthesis generally led to positive change, until the nirvana of utopian socialism is finally reached. As we watch the cracks appear in the international banking system, and in the world’s second largest media conglomerate*, we can at least see that the self-destructive bit seems broadly correct even if we still have some way to travel before we reach a socialist utopia.
*The mind-boggling thing is that the world's largest media conglomerate is apparently the Walt Disney Corporation. Now I know we're all doomed !
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