The Wrongness of the Right Side of History | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The right side of history is rather Hegelian concept, especially in dealing with theology and with government and economics. Stalin probably borrowed from Hegel, which is not good for Hegel. Of course, if Capitalism is the Thesis and Communism the Antithesis, then the collapse of the latter will probably lead to the eventual collapse of the former, with a Synthesis arising from the ashes, probably from the liberal side. I suspect there are plenty of synthetic ideas out there - I wrote a book full of them - Musings from the Christain Left (you can find the pieces online in various spots, just Google it) - the problem is that in our noisy Internet culture, its hard to find such new ideas - there are always naysayers in the chat room.
As for stadia, the new arrangements are synthesis, or so it may seem at first blush. It is usually science and engineering, in fact, that the term is most applicable. Stadia and airports are public ventures and lack some of the external controls that make scientific advancement self-correcting. Unless capitalism is the synthesis, however, we have not reached the end of our journey. I suspect the ultimate fate of sports venues will come once players own the teams and municipalities have a share of the ownership for owning the venue, part of which will be distributed to the people who staff tickets and concessions. Now that would be progress on the broad arc of history.
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