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These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fuelled populist protest, with the triumph of Brexit and election of Donald Trump.
Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the polarized politics of our time, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalisation and rising inequality. Sandel highlights the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imposes on those left behind. He offers an alternative way of thinking about success - more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conducive to an ethic of humility, and more hospitable to a politics of the common good.
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##Strive for "a broad equality of condition that enables those who do not achieve great wealth or prestigious positions to live lives of decency and dignity — developing and exercising their abilities in work that wins social esteem, sharing in a widely diffused culture of learning, and deliberating with their fellow citizens about public affairs."
評分##給我很大衝擊的一本書。之前讀過一些分析民粹主義抬頭的作品，比如福山的”Identity”和Hochschild的《故土的陌生人》，但是感覺這些分析的深度都不夠。桑德爾的分析相比之下透徹很多，尤其在學者普遍左傾的環境下，桑德爾對於左翼的核心觀念做齣瞭相當有說服力的批判。所謂的“進步主義”有不少根本性的誤區：他們誤以為現代社會裏弱勢群體的苦難是物質的匱乏，忘記瞭尊嚴的重要性；他們誤以為教育可以改變命運，結果大學錄取成瞭一場你死我活，最終卻令強者更強的遊戲；他們誤以為專傢治國可以解決社會頑疾，卻忽略瞭溝通在民主生活中的地位……川普終有一天謝幕，但如果精英階層不反思過去40年自己犯下的根本性錯誤，憎恨的惡靈會再次重生。
評分給我帶來非常多思考的一本書，書寫上邏輯嚴謹，層層遞進非常舒服。重設瞭我很多概念的先驗認知並聯係起來，比如meritocracy之於當下的popularism，polarization和demoralization；比如technocracy加上globalization之於美國這四十年來日益加劇的inequality；比如liberal market，american dream之於meritocracy的必然，從而改變social welfare，（經濟學上將近半世紀的著名爭論！）而後又如何導嚮現在盛行的credentialism再進一步強化meritocracy與mobility的日益不可能。我想把它武斷地推薦給每一個人，它不是一部全對的書，但會讓人或社會變得更公正，更可能，我想。
評分##引言寫於COVID當下，這一年社會日益嚴重的分裂也應證瞭書裏的觀點。非常周到的從新教和資本主義起源，論述到近代資本化（甚至可以直接點說是公司製度和華爾街文化）帶來的更露骨的精英理念的世襲和演變，最後導緻社會以功績和金錢利潤作為衡量人的效用的決定因素，以及這背後一係列“世襲”精英製管理的上升通道。當我們說著“人類命運共同體”時，首先應該放棄使用“站在曆史正確的一邊”這種說辭，既然是共同體，那就都是一邊的。
評分##精神荷蘭人
評分##有時候同樣的觀點重復瞭好幾遍，有些冗長感。
評分##“even if a meritocracy were fair, it would not be a good society. It would generate hubris and anxiety among the winners and humiliation and resentment among the losers” 真·猛男落淚。
評分##有時候同樣的觀點重復瞭好幾遍，有些冗長感。
評分##有時候同樣的觀點重復瞭好幾遍，有些冗長感。
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