An article in Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer pondered if Downton Abbey's popularity - which apparently took its producers by surprise - could be chalked up to "its devotion to the concept of decency. The series invites us to judge its characters not for their financial success, sex appeal, ambition, or will to power, but for their civility & capacity for compassion."
It ponders, "Perhaps decency is an outmoded idea... perceived as a virtue only in communities held together by the stability & certainty of a rigid class system. Perhaps in a truly democratic society, decency must give way to the bustle of competition, the explosive propulsion of ambition. Maybe we just don't have enough time to be decent to one another."
Interesting points. And clearly indicative of a mind that thinks that democracy & capitalism are one & the same. They might appear to be that way in our current day & age, they are certainly presented that way on news outlets such as Fox, which - in no uncertain yet false terms - equates the two.
No where is this jumbling of the one with the other more evident than in the description that a truly democratic society features the "bustle of competition," "the explosive propulsion of ambition."
Since when are those qualities emblematic of a democratic society? Yet, the author clearly thinks they are.
I agree 100% that decency has no place in a purely capitalistic society, which hopefully the USA is not, but it is the bedrock of a genuinely democratic one.
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