Unregulated capitalism with amoral science converts the Eden myth into its obverse

Evidence

Late-nineteenth-century capitalism as unchecked greed and exploitation, in unholy alliance with modern science and technology as amoral instrumentalist megalomania, has converted the American Eden into its obverse, an anti-Eden, with the machine dynamo vibrating with a vengeance in the ersatz garden. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 931

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Right-wing survivalists inherited the sixties’ apocalyptic vision and language — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 998; Capitalism’s naturalness and eternity are a hoax — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 26; Capitalism’s rupture with older social forms makes their myths undecipherable to us — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1674 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Engels’s primitive-communism narrative secretly repeats the Eden-and-fall myth #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 481
• Capitalism’s naturalness and eternity are a hoax #corroborates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 26
• Capitalism’s rupture with older social forms makes their myths undecipherable to us #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1674
• Capitalism cannot function without its ideological disguises and myths #expands (0.75) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 96