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Ladataan... Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid ModernityTekijä: Zygmunt Bauman
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Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning away of one's ethical gaze. Evil and moral blindness lurk in what we take as normality and in the triviality and banality of everyday life, and not just in the abnormal and exceptional cases. The distinctive kind of moral blindness that characterizes our societies is brilliantly analysed by Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas Donskis through the concept of adiaphora: the placing of certain acts or categories of human beings outside of the universe of moral obligations and evaluations. Adiaphora implies an attitude of indifference to what is happening in the world - a moral numbness. In a life where rhythms are dictated by ratings wars and box-office returns, where people are preoccupied with the latest gadgets and forms of gossip, in our 'hurried life' where attention rarely has time to settle on any issue of importance, we are at serious risk of losing our sensitivity to the plight of the other. Only celebrities or media stars can expect to be noticed in a society stuffed with sensational, valueless information. This probing inquiry into the fate of our moral sensibilities will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the most profound changes that are silently shaping the lives of everyone in our contemporary liquid-modern world. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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The concept of Liquid Modernity is one with which, I have grave difficulties in coming to terms. It reeks of my old mum saying, "In my day...", which was inevitably followed by a put down of some modern life style choice. The authors seem to be genuinely shocked that the populous do not wield power in the West at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and compare this to a halcyon stage at which we did (news to me!). They hit upon the old chestnut that those pesky youngsters communicating via social media have no live friends and that the world is becoming a less caring place, by the second. They even imply that the current slump, caused by the banking industry, is proof that the Western period of power is over.
So, I have pretty effectively demonstrated why, in my opinion, this book is not a five star read: why, in the light of the above, should I be so generous as to award it three and a half?
The answer to that question is that the book does raise important issues as to the future of civilisation and how we got to where we now find ourselves. I have a list of books, referred to in this opus, which I shall now try to find and it has broadened my knowledge of such things as the Augsberg conference of 1555. The factual information, in general, appears to be pretty good; it is just the conclusions that I find difficult to swallow. This world is far from perfect, but I know whether I would rather be a peasant today, or in the fifteenth, tenth or first century a.d.! (