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“Over the last several months, public figures from the pope downwards have bombarded us with injunctions to fight against the culture of excessive greed and consumption.

This disgusting spectacle of cheap moralization is an ideological operation if there ever was one: the compulsion (to expand) inscribed into the system itself is translated into a matter of personal sin, a private psychological propensity.”