David Brooks in the NY Times writes about the tenor of public impatience with public institutions. “Many people seem to be in the middle of a religious crisis of faith. All the gods they believe in — technology, technocracy, centralized government control — have failed them in this instance.”
Our modern tendency to understand human beings as analogues of computers, which I have begun to call “compumorphizing, gives this kind of result.
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