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Yannis Stavrou, Industrial Landscape II, oil on canvas

On the culture of our times...

Richard Sennett

From The Fall Of Public Man (1974):

"Masses of people are concerned with their single life histories and particular emotion as never before; this concern has proved to be a trap rather than a liberation," he wrote. Given that each self is "in some measure a cabinet of horrors, civilised relations between selves can only proceed to the extent that nasty little secrets of desire, greed or envy are kept locked up".

From The Corrosion of Character (1998):

A regime "which provides human beings no deep reasons to care about one another cannot long preserve its legitimacy".

From The Craftsman (2008)

"Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards."

From The Culture of the New Capitalism (2006)

"When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race to the bottom" simply in terms of wages. Capitalism supposedly looks for labor wherever labor is cheapest. This story is half wrong. A kind of cultural selection is also at work, so that jobs leave high-wage countries like the United States and Germany, but migrate to low-wage economies with skilled, sometimes overqualified workers."

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