Read entire article »This conflict between family and work poses some questions about adult experience itself. How can long-term purposes be pursued in a short-term society? How can durable social relations be sustained? How can a human being develop a narrative of identity and life history in a society composed of episodes and fragments? The conditions of the new economy feed instead on experience which drifts in time, from place to place, from job to job…Short-term capitalism threatens to corrode…character, particularly those qualities of character which bind human beings to one another and furnishes each with a sense of sustainable self.
The Corrosion of Character (p. 26-27) by Richard Sennett, W.W. Norton & Company, 1998
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