Saturday, December 18, 2010

More nGram timesucks


I mentioned the shifting shape of utopia in yesterday's post, using Google's nGram reader to track the rising fortunes of the idea of human rights and the (entirely non-coincidental) falling fortunes of collectivist hopes for human emancipation. Well, above is a better version, this time comparing "socialism" to "human rights."

Well, here's another one, this time that tells you something about the social attention to the endless wars on drugs.


And this one ain't bad either: "capitalism" v. "globalization":

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Capitalism and socialism are in sync, which kinda makes sense: http://bit.ly/gRbpRI