Quick post - a fancinating article today by Alain de Botton on the BBC news website, highlighting some of the limitations of our libertarian society and, so some degree, defending the idea of a nanny state. He talks about our 'laziness' in doing good and the lack of voices in our society who dare tell us how to live our lives.
Nice paragraph below and a link to the whole story:
"If we tend to think so often about eating crisps and buying cars, but relatively little about being nice or just, the fault is not merely our own. It is also that these two cardinal virtues are not generally in a position to become clients of Saatchi and Saatchi. Only the more negligible of goods presently have the resources to insist that we keep them foremost in our minds."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12360045
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