We are the standards we set

I wrote this blog precisely a year ago. So much has changed, but so little has not.

After 300 years of the a capitalist approach to life, the dogma we have developed has become so entrenched we often don’t notice it.

Growth, efficiency, shareholder rights, returns. Life defined in financial terms.

This has become so embedded that the culture we have created now puts mental health at the top the agenda, and people getting stressed by the idea of taking holidays. Stockholm syndrome for the workplace. We have impoverished our spiritual selves in return for something of distinctly finite worth.

Before we got obsessed with scale and growth, other paradigms were present. A commitment to craft, the creation of beauty for its own sake, notions of discovery and philosophy as hallmarks of culture. Of course, those times carried with them a few downsides, from disease and poverty to war.

So going back is not an option, but do we have to throw the baby out with the bathwater?

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