Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline — When Growth Becomes the Goal
What happens when economic expansion stops serving a civilization and becomes its purpose?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline by Morris Berman as our lens, this investigation examines the commercial culture Berman calls “hustling”: the pursuit of private gain, material affluence, technological expansion, and continuous growth.
Berman argues that this orientation has shaped America since the colonial period. Competing traditions of civic virtue, restraint, craftsmanship, public service, and…
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