Conceived as a device for appeasing government censors and uneasy retailers,
shifting public morals and a changing market finally made it obsolete.
Not exact matches
the
shift has been away from Freudian, Rogerian and Nietzschean values, especially individualistic selfactualization and narcissistic self - expression, and toward engendering durable habits of
moral excellence and covenant community; methodologically away from modern culture - bound individuated experience and toward the shared
public texts of Scripture and ecumenical tradition; politically away from trust in regulatory power and rationalistic planning to historical reasoning and a relatively greater critical trust in the responsible free interplay of interests in the marketplace of goods and ideas.
Right there, embedded in his statement, is the same
moral focus as in those who hounded him: the
shifting sands of
public opinion.
The campaign quickly spread to many parts of the world, and by 2015 thousands of divestment campaigns were underway, helping
shift public opinion in favour of keeping fossil fuels in the ground and highlighting the
moral urgency of climate action.
Postmodernism and
moral decay in climate change denialism With the sesmic
shift in
public attitudes avalanching down upon their bunker, climate change denialists have retreated into a postmodern shell.
Thousands of divestment campaigns around the world are helping
shift public opinion in favour of keeping fossil fuels in the ground and highlighting the
moral urgency of climate action.