The very use of the term "game" clearly manifests the vision of our world as something not entirely real. Because everything is a game, we are temporary inhabitants of this place and therefore we cannot take very seriously almost anything. Only, unfortunately, the etymology of the word also shows that the notion of the game has much of a joke (mixture of iocum and ludus-ludere) to pachas with the entertainment part.
Therefore, knowing the Latin passion for bread, the circus and wine, we end up today with a rampant ludo-patía that does not see the catastrophe that is coming, because the important thing is that, the game, the entertainment that soothes our rapid passage through this world.
The problem is, those who come after as a hackneyed resource without forgetting the brown that we can eat and ourselves, as we are beginning to see today. A mix between visions already sung by Marx with other types of more complete sociological notions from the perspective of an already defeated current affairs on the side of consumerism. All this contextualized in an analytical vision of the evolution of the Earth rather than of our civilization to offer a complementary glimpse between our world as an independent environment and as a habitat adjusted to our needs.
Synopsis
In this new book Philipp Bloom he scrutinizes the social situation, and what he sees is not very promising: we are facing the abyss on several fronts, of which perhaps the most alarming and pressing is related to climate change. To find out how to proceed, Blom analyzes how different societies reacted to the so-called "Little Ice Age" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and his conclusion is that not all of them knew or could adapt equally well to climate change.
We also have other fronts open: the consumer society generates growing inequality, the middle classes tend to be diluted, robots and artificial intelligence make many jobs dispensable. And in the political sphere, the supporters of an unrestricted capitalism who seek to defend their privileges gain positions, and authoritarian populisms emerge, while true democracy is cornered ...
The world that emerged from the Enlightenment - freedom, justice, democracy - is in danger. The good news, Blom tells us, is that we still have time to reverse all these evils. This courageous and necessary book aims to help detect them and provide instruments to react, to steer course before we collide.
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