CITIZENS OR ONLY CONSUMERS
“There is something wrong with our modern society,” my colleague said the other day. “If you look at the leaks of documents from Wikileaks concerning Afghanistan or Iraq, people in the 1970s or 1980s would have organized huge demonstrations and asked for accountability from their respective governments for the damage done to the local population, for accountability of military expenditures, etc.” “Today, people have become passive. All they care about is their small world, a stable job and the…
