Sentences with phrase «profoundly social people»

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Our culture (through social media, reality TV, celebrity gossip, etc.) has so profoundly commodified people — actual human beings — it's become a phenomenon we hardly even notice anymore.

All profoundly religions people are gripped by a vision of reality which is not only beyond the state but beyond the difficult lessons of experience, beyond the realistic analysis of social forces and societal needs, beyond the prudential calculations of common sense, and beyond the fragmented bits of data we get from daily life.

A quick glimpse at the daily news shows just how profoundly social problems can impact people's lives.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

They say that being Indigenous «doesn't place someone at special risk of HIV per se»: it is the inequalities in health and the social determinants of health that profoundly affect Indigenous people and place them in special and urgent need of being recognised as a «key population».