The Fear of Insignificance
Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Century| By: | C. Strenger |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9780230108950 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780230117662 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2011 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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This book shows how, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Gospel of the free market became the only world-religion of universal validity. The belief that all value needs to be quantifiable was extended to human beings, whose value became dependent on their rating on the various ranking-scales in the global infotainment system.