Is that Buster Keaton sitting at the table?
Apart from that; "Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be’ (anon) Corollary “'-and it never was” (Tarquin S Shagnasty)***
***It’s pronounced Shaw-ness -ee.
Which book? It’s over 40 years since I read Weber. I remember thinking 'The Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Capitalism" was excellent. Arguably the best thing he wrote.
I don’t agree that we have reached that point just yet, but I think we’re getting close.
Not quite yet.
It can be argued that Marx’s lumpenproletariat are far better off than they were two hundred , or even 100 years ago in every measurable factor of which I can think…
In Australia we have the concept of the affluent working class. So much so that at leas one modern writer*** has claimed that Australia is a country without class.
My own position is that Australia may be accurately described as a middle class hegemony.****
IMO the two greatest social changes in western society within the last 200 years have been (1) the positive changes in the position of women and (2) with affluence the steady but sure erosion of the superstitions of religions towards secular humanism.
The correlation between poverty, ignorance and religiosity is so common, that I’d be willing to bet the connection is causal. As far as I’m aware, there is not one affluent society on earth which has had an increase in religiosity over say the last generation.
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***In “Equality And Opportunity” Sol Encel uses the interactionist perspective brought into disrepute by Margaret Mead . Petr Worsley described that approach as naive.
*** My position is supported by Raewyn Conell in “Ruling Class Ruling Culture”