Modernity's Other and the
Transformation of the University
Short Answers to Simple
Questions
The Simple Questions
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Who are we?
Where are we going?
How will we get there?
What are some next steps?
The short answers.
We are the species whose ecological
niche is the creation of culture.
We are going to a global mosaic of green
and open societies.
We will get there by liberating ourselves
from domination by capitalism.
Some next steps are teaching social
entrepreneurship and selling lifelong
education for the good life.
: “Capitalism can generate mean streets
and strained lives unless it is restrained
and supplemented by other –often
nonmarket—institutions.” [1]
[1] Amartya Sen, “Sraffa, Wittgenstein, and Gramsci,” Journal of Economic Literature.
Vol. 41 (2003) pp. 1240-1255. p. 1247.
Separate livelihood from sales!!
 We
have to separate livelihood
from sales. We have to get back
to the first principle. The first
principle is that the economy
should be serving humanity, not
the other way about.
Modernity's Other and the
Transformation of the
University
Short Answers to Simple Questions