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Episode 40: Philipp Blom

The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly

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We're Still Stuck in a Few of Those Nouns

We are still stuck in this notion of pleasure power and happiness is greed is the state from which all blessings flow. Well I mean that's not far off from our own consumer society that we've got going in the United States. We're beginning to see this model was good for a while it made the worst rich below beyond its wildest greens. But we've really come to the moment where we have to think about a radical reorientation for our societies because nature will no longer stand our expanding at the rate that we are doing now.

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