It’s a good thing this epic recession is an opportunity to “reset” our culture, as Kurt Andersen tells us, or slough off the chains of corporatism, as per Douglas Rushkoff . Otherwise it would really suck for all the unemployed people. We haven’t read Andersen’s new book, called Reset , but we got a preview in his essay for Time a few months ago arguing that the economic mess that has one in eight Americans behind on their mortgage payments or in foreclosure is actually a good thing because it could herald a “rediscovery of the common good.” Rushkoff makes a similar, if larger, argument in Life, Inc
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It’s Not a Crippling Recession. It’s a Learning Experience!
