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... the success of twentieth-century technology in providing Americans with convenience, comfort, speed, hygiene, and abundance was so obvious and promising that there seemed no reason to look for any other sources of fulfillment or creativity or purpose. To every Old World belief, habit, or tradition, there was and still is a technological alternative. [...]
Neil Postman
The same week that Lehman Brothers collapsed, Damien Hirst sold his "The Golden Calf" for a record $18.5 million. Dan Wooldridge responds to an article by David Bodanis exploring how the idea of idolatry plays out in this economic crisis.
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There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets "things" with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns "my" and "mine" look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal root is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology could do. [...]
A.W. Tozer
Inspired by a collection Atlantic Magazine reprints under the rubric, "Markets and Morals," Jim Hancock writes, "If behavior measures worldview — if where our feet take us tells us who we truly are — and if, refusing to be content with merely understanding economic climate change, we insist on actually changing the economic climate, then our work is cut out for us."
Bradley J Moore prickles when a businessperson tells the Wall Street Journal God "foreordained" an acquisition: "I believe strongly in mingling our personal Christian faith with our work. I believe God cares about my company, my deals, my desire to succeed and prosper, and I will always seek out God’s wisdom and guidance for decisions, both big and small. But I do NOT believe God owes me success by virtue of the fact that I love him and have prayed about a strategic decision."
The gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something — have no doubts about that, either. He may think that his tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of his heart — but it will out. That which dominates will determine his life and character. [...]
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The mechanical clock," as Lewis Mumford wrote, "made possible the idea of regular production, regular working hours and a standardized product." In short, without the clock, capitalism would have been quite impossible. The paradox, the surprise, and the wonder are that the clock was invented by men who wanted to devote themselves more rigorously to God; it ended as the technology of greatest use to men who wished to devote themselves to the accumulation of money.[...]"
Neil Postman
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"The world continues its impetuous run into financialization, a process that assigns a monetary value or transaction to an ever greater share of human activities. Human activity is being captured progressively in financial form. Probably as much as 60-80% of human activity in the Western world is already counted or logged through a financial transaction. Distinguished over the past two centuries, that represents at least a tripling of the role of money.
Ron J. Bigalke, Jr., General Editor
Humans tend to THINK we can do whatever we please, but in the meantime, our great contribution to this idea of religion is to make idols. Howard Morrison looks around to see how that's working out.
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