04 July 2007

Development without hurting

“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.”

Allen Ginsberg

"The presently dominant economic system, capitalism based on growth, industrialisation, profit, etc. has been severed from values. It has often become senseless and although it is remarkably efficient, it is also often destructive in terms of social justice, environment and cultural identity. It may, therefore be more vulnerable a system than present-day triumphalism leads us to think. The crisis of capitalism may be close to us, in the form of a crisis of meaning, of values, of civilisation. "

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