Love Your Career More Than Your Tenth

Charles taylor writes about how the west, over the last five centuries, moved from a culture of ority to what he calls a culture of authenticity. Now really, this fulcram shift goes back to freud. Most westerners thought about desire through the lens of augustine. Augustine was a fourth century african playboy who became a follower of jesus and then grew into this towering mind that gave shape to much of western thought. And right or wrong, his ideas have become the air that we breathe in the late modern, secular west.