Finally.
Establishment newspaper the New York Times is dropping its pretence that it didn’t know the current economic system is failing people and society.
They did it via a guest opinion citing Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut …who gave a speech warning his fellow Democrats that they were ignoring a crisis staring them in the face.
Here is the key bit:
“The idea that modern life is a story of constant economic and technological progress steadily making the world a better place has stopped lining up with how Americans feel. You can look at statistics about suicide, depression, overdoses and declining life expectancy. You can point to the fact that roughly 70 percent of wild animals on Earth have disappeared since 1970 or examine the astonishingly pervasive sense of loneliness that now seems to color so many American lives. But no statistics really capture the feeling, shared by growing numbers of Americans, that the world is just getting worse.”
Carrzee: maybe the presidential election campaign can now get real.
President Biden and Mr. Murphy outside the White House.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times
Nyt published four days after we did this, framing the ethical crisis in a different way:
And this