Stephanie Jane recenzis Ethosism de Jo M. Sekimonyo
Passionate philosophy
3 steloj
Ethosism is an extremely passionate philosophy book which explores how the main political-economic systems across the globe - capitalism, fascism, communism and socialism - have brought us to our current state of a world nearing resource exhaustion and collapse. I appreciated Sekimonyo's explanations of how these economic theories were first encapsulated during the industrial revolution and Victorian eras and how they are, therefore, no longer useful for the twenty-first century. Communism and socialism seem to have had their times, with capitalism being the favoured system now, but Sekimonyo ably shows how its inherent inequalities render capitalism unfit for purpose for the vast majority of people. Only those few able to expend vast amounts of money and energy shoring up the system will benefit. The historical and global survey was interesting as I was shown capitalism from a very different perspective.
I agreed strongly with a lot of what Sekimonyo has …
Ethosism is an extremely passionate philosophy book which explores how the main political-economic systems across the globe - capitalism, fascism, communism and socialism - have brought us to our current state of a world nearing resource exhaustion and collapse. I appreciated Sekimonyo's explanations of how these economic theories were first encapsulated during the industrial revolution and Victorian eras and how they are, therefore, no longer useful for the twenty-first century. Communism and socialism seem to have had their times, with capitalism being the favoured system now, but Sekimonyo ably shows how its inherent inequalities render capitalism unfit for purpose for the vast majority of people. Only those few able to expend vast amounts of money and energy shoring up the system will benefit. The historical and global survey was interesting as I was shown capitalism from a very different perspective.
I agreed strongly with a lot of what Sekimonyo has to say, once I had managed to understand his thoughts. I liked the inclusion of so many apt quotes from a wide variety of great thinkers, several of who were new names to me. Unfortunately however, Ethosism is written mostly in quite intense and scholarly language (albeit with a smattering of crassness) which had me reaching for my dictionary several times on each page. This made the book hard going for me, but I persevered because I was particularly interested in discovering what Sekimonyo's alternative would be. I was disappointed therefore that Ethosism itself didn't seem to be explained in anywhere near the same depth of detail. I think I understood that it entailed people being able to run their own affairs without recourse to any political system enforced by a government, but I couldn't understand how this would be achieved in actuality so I felt somewhat let down at the end of it all.