Antonio Gramsci wrote in 1930: “The crisis consists precisely in the facts that the old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” Trump’s reelection even after the January 6th insurrection and the widespread embrace of scapegoating and conspiracy theories are today’s morbid symptoms. In The Habitation Society: Paths to Sustainable Prosperity, I argue that both our politics and our economy are so damaged because we have been unable to transition from an industrial society to a habitation society.
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