When Wealth Pretends to Be Wise, the Academy Must Speak

There are moments in history when a civilisation does not collapse noisily, but drifts—slowly, comfortably—away from its moral bearings. We may be living through such a moment now. Wealth, greased by technology and performative spectacle, has briefly succeeded in presenting itself as wisdom. Influence now passes for insight; scale substitutes for substance; military might for righteous action; and speed is mistaken for progress.

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