What's Wrong With Society?

Part 5C. Assume Positions!

MacIntyre continues, placing this insight into this set of roles that came before it.

“[we have] notable characters in the cultural dramas of modernity: that of the therapist, who has in the last twenty years become bemused by biochemical discoveries; that of the corporate manager, who is now mouthing formulas that she or he learned in a course in business ethics, while still trying to justify her or his pretensions to expertise; and that of the aesthete, who is presently emerging from a devotion to conceptual art. So the conservative moralist has become one more stock character in the scripted conversations of the ruling elites of advanced modernity. But those elites never have the last word.”

We became gears in the machine. We think we’re fighting against the machine, but we’re actually keeping it going.

Learn more about these roles from Alasdair MacIntyre’s book, After Virtue, in the this recap video >>