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“The liquid modern variety of adiaphorization is cut after the pattern of the consumer–commodity relation, and its effectiveness relies on the transplantation of that pattern to interhuman relations.”
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
“A consumerist attitude may lubricate the wheels of the economy; it sprinkles sand into the bearings of morality.”
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
“We live with a few familiar ideas. Two or three. We polish and transform them according to the societies and the men we happen to meet.”
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
“ours is the first era in which it has been possible for people of different
nations to conduct their affairs in a friendly and understanding manner. In the old days, peoples spent their lives fearing and even hating one another because of ignorance on all sides.”
― Querido Profesor Einstein: Correspondencia entre Albert Einstein y los Niños
nations to conduct their affairs in a friendly and understanding manner. In the old days, peoples spent their lives fearing and even hating one another because of ignorance on all sides.”
― Querido Profesor Einstein: Correspondencia entre Albert Einstein y los Niños
“globalization is the last failed hope that, somewhere, there still exists a land where one can escape and find happiness. Or the last failed hope that, somewhere, there still exists a land different from yours in terms of being able to oppose the sense of meaninglessness, the loss of criteria and, ultimately, moral blindness and the loss of sensitivity.”
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
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