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| Money is by nature an aggressive force: greedy, insatiable. It gobbles up its surroundings and draws them into its system. The land, the houses, the rivers and trees no longer exist in themselves, out of love, but as part of the money system. Even people begin to eagerly think of themselves in terms of their market value, and to present themselves for exchange and sale. If this process were taken to its logical conclusion, we would have a kind of total Babylon, a society of prostitutes where everything has a price, and perhaps that wouldn't be so bad. It would be more honest than our present duplicity. It might even work as a moral system. The trouble is that for the moment, we are left with the shell of an older system in which such things as the natural order, the civic order, and basic human dignity are perceived as having value in themselves, or value given to them by God. It seems to me that God must be aware of our slackening, and angry with it. He may even be using it as the mechanism of our downfall: the downfall of the weak, a kind of modern plague. |
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