The deep roots of modern resentment

[Marks199]

An original attempt to explain today’s paranoid hatreds

SOON after the Soviet Union imploded, Pankaj Mishra reminds his readers, The Economist felt able to assert that “there was no serious alternative to free-market capitalism as the way to organize economic life.” Yet today, the notion that a global capitalist economy hitched to a liberal internationalism can bring peace, progress and prosperity have taken a beating. That is evident not only in the violence in Iraq and Syria, where what used to be called the civilizing hand has proven incapable of stemming the bloodshed. It is evident, too, in the vitriolic populism resurging at the heart of Western democracies—in Brexit, in the rise of Marine Le Pen in France and in Donald Trump’s tumultuous route to the White House.

Taken from the economist.

My question: Could this be a huge collective ego backlash? Is this stage greens failure in middle east countries. Are we too slow with the elevation of consciousness which polarizes society?

As economies slow, more people will feel that powerful elites have dangled the fruits of material progress only to pull them away. I think this leads us to stage yellow. But at the moment we cant see this horizon.

Edited August 22, 2019 by Marks199