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Fri 01 Jan 2009Root cause of global crisis is human nature, not economics
OPINION:OUR CULTURE takes hope for granted. Since so much of what happens in the public square seems concerned with satisfying human desires for pleasure and happiness, this insight is not immediately available. But increasingly our culture seems to regard such satisfactions as add-on benefits to human existence, which is assumed to be automatic, writes John Waters
Embedded deep in our collective conversation is a delusional notion that human life continues in the manner of the machine, requiring only the correct physical conditions for maximum efficiency and the fuel to drive it. But human beings are delicate entities, depending for their survival and propulsion on some deep-set sense of meaning.
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