New Oxford Notes: May 2012
Cornered by the Market
Once the 'market mentality' infects a society, authentic human relations suffer. Do we want a market economy or a market ? Where should consumerism end?
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Ivy League Culture Wars
There are campus activists and groups-- who are not necessarily Catholic or even Christian-- at Ivy League colleges fighting for traditional moral values on marriage and sexuality.
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Positive changes can happen when we are willing to work, suffer, pray, make concrete proposals, go up the chain of command, and take the heat.
Bloom takes as his model an atheist who is prepared to be deceptive about his beliefs in order to protect his own interests. It seems fair to infer that Bloom is such a person.
Good will not come from maximizing stockholder wealth, but rather from reconnecting capital to labor and communities with a stake in it.