Confusing cause/effect much? Classic Macintyrean nonsense. *Modernity* didn't "destroy the shared 🤪 moral 🤡language 😂once supplied by traditions & religion." It is a result of centuries of cyclic decays, implosions, and catastrophic consequences of religion 🤮& traditions🤢!
New newsletter: MARKETS AND MORALITY
"Gambling and prediction markets are flourishing because they meets the needs of our moment: a low-trust world, where often lonely young people are seeking high-risk opportunities to launch them into wealth and comfort...
Americans are pulling away from practically every value that once defined national life—patriotism, religion, community, family. Young people care less than their parents about marriage, children, or faith. But nature, abhorring a vacuum, is filling the moral void left by retreating institutions with the market. Money has become our final virtue.
I often find myself thinking about the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who argued in the introduction of After Virtue that modernity had destroyed the shared moral language once supplied by traditions and religion, leaving us with only the language of individual preference. Virtue did not disappear, I think, so much as it died and was reincarnated as the market. It is now the market that tells us what things are worth, what events matter, whose predictions are correct, who is winning, who counts."