"We no longer have political movements. While thousands of us may come together for a rally or march, we are bound together on such occasions by a single shared interest. Any effort to convert such interests into collective goals is usually undermined by the fragmented individualism of our concerns. Laudable goalsâfighting climate change, opposing war, advocating public healthcare or penalizing bankersâare united by nothing more than the expression of emotion. In our political as in our economic lives, we have become consumers: choosing from a broad gamut of competing objectives, we find it hard to imagine ways or reasons to combine these into a coherent whole. We must do better than this."
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Ch. 3 : The Unbearable Lightness of Politics
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Tony Judt
Tony Robert Judt (2 January 1948 â 6 August 2010) was a British historian, essayist, and university professor who specialized in European history.
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