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The Mental Disease of Late-Stage Capitalism
- PaulHoule 11y agoIt is not "late stage capitalism", it is the phenomenon Toffler called "Future Shock" and it was hitting hard in the "early stage capitalism" of Dickens and Darwin. My grandparents came to the U.S. as refugees from war-torn Europe and economic collapse in Darkest Canada and it is not all that different than Syrians, Somalis and so many others migrating today. See also the "Culture of Narcissism" by Lasch which applies to not just the 1970s but also the 1870s and is believed by many Japanese to explain the moral decay of the isolationist Tokugawa empire.