HIS222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Laissez-Faire, Cultural Hegemony, Making Money
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Modernization, modernity and modernism rely on an expansion of the american dream. American dream: a dream of a better life. Karl marx didn"t understand the abstract belief in possibilities. Corporation: group of individuals who combine to form an entity. First american corporations: textile mills, ran off of power of water. Illness developed due to a reliance on dirty water. Can"t slow down the mill because slow mill=less production. Government has to intervene and pass regulations. People continue to work because they believe in the american dream. No longer creating a sense of self: believed you can make a better self without making money. Cultural hegemony sets in: everyone is expected to and mainly do believe in what is a system. Machine became the symbol of the age.
