Our "Big" Problem
To
a
remarkable degree in a country that can’t agree on much of anything
lately,
people across the political spectrum share a belief that something is
fundamentally
wrong with (to use a term from late-60s radicalism) “the establishment.”
Although
we define the establishment by vastly different criteria, we’re
remarkably
close on what we find objectionable about it.
It’s become too big and unmanageable, crushing far too
much of what it
encounters—not least of which is ordinary people and their values.
I
would submit that the underlying problem here, as yet imperfectly
grasped and articulated,
is that we now live in an environment of oppressive gigantism.
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