bertramonline

I found this on the some website or other a while ago, kept it around without attribution — and now cannot find out where it is from and who wrote it. That shall not stop me:

We cannot begin to know what ‘flourishing’ really means when capital has convinced us that having 80 brands of toothpaste available is a good thing and a flourishing in itself; a freedom, so to speak, that replaces and indeed masks and obscures that real freedom we can only grasp as a yet shapeless form behind a curtain, or in a fog.