Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
People are realistic enough to appreciate what the market values of different people are.
We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.
One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
Values are more important than money.