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| 登出日期： 2007-07-25 |
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ms. Contrary to the “economic optimists,” those who argue that
all humanity’s problems are easily solved through technology, Homer-Dixon argues that
in many basic areas of human welfare we are failing to meet our collective needs.
Markets, science, and democracy—the tools the economic optimists often credit with
providing humanity endless progress into the future—are not panaceas. They seem so
to those living in major metropolitan areas in North America and Western Europe, since
policy elites and government officials benefit by them. But Homer-Dixon, in examining
the logic of the economic optimists, identifies four flaws in their reasoning. One: they take the unmistakable improvements in human well being in the past and
project these linearly into the future. Two: they present evidence of progress in various
areas in aggregate terms—for example, citing lowered infant mortality or rising GDP—
without acknowledging that these gains are not well-distributed worldwide but
concentrated in a limited number of countries. Three: they downplay events and facts
that raise serious questions about their worldview. Four: they regard markets, science,
and liberal democracy as sufficient to solving the world’s problems.
There are many organizations devoted to the economic optimism that Homer-Dixon
criticizes in this article. While many are on the political right, their ideas are very much
in the mainstream of North American political discourse today. Two s英语论文网 【http://www.51lunwen.org】uch organizations
especially active during the 2004 federal election in the United States are the Club for
Growth and Citizens for a Sound Economy. Regardless of one’s personal ideological
affiliation, the reader has to be impressed with their optimism about growth, markets,
and limited government. At the following URL, former U.S. Republican Congressional
leader Dick Armey, chairperson of Citizens for a Sound Economy, is featured talking
about his organization’s faith in free markets and limited government as the foundations
of a good society.:
http://www.cse.org/know/index.php
3. Alternatives and Applications: Compassion Fatigue
The source for this section is Susan Moeller’s book Compassion Fatigue: How the
Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death. New York: Routledge, 1998.
a. what is compassion fatigue?
The more complex the world becomes and the more its suffering provokes us, the more
likely some of us are to retreat to our private lives. A major inspiration for this retreat is
called “compassion fatigue,” and it’s a phenomenon immediately implicated with the
media. Compassion fatigue is an example of one way in which the North American
public responds to the ingenuity gap Homer-Dixon describes. That is, confronted with the intractability of the world’s problems, we are disposed to experiencing compassion
fatigue all too quickly.
Compassion fatigue is the moral exhaustion which people (typically in the West)
experie
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