Capitalistic Living
I'm currently reading Paul Waddell's Becoming Friends: Worship, Justice, and the Practice of Christian Friendship and thought I would share an interesting peace of insight to consider. He lists various obstacles to the real friendship in the Body.
In one point, he specifically writes of capitalism as he says an "obstacle to intimacy and friendship is our culture's increasingly economic understanding of life. In many respects capitalism has grown to be not only our economic system but also our culture's master narrative...We live in a society where increasingly almost everything is seen in market categories, and anything, including ourselves, can be a commodity. In Western society today the fundamental value of anything is determined economically. How does this effect relationships? Do we value friendship less because it has no cash value? Is family life no longer worthy because when we devote time to our spouses an dchildren we are not being economically productive?"
May we live in and be led by Jesus as we reject the incorpration of a deadly system into our lives.
><>
montague
posted by MONTAGUE at 12:51 PM
3 Comments:
Time has become money for most of us. I often seem myself and my fiance bogged down with a life of consumption, usually involving to-do lists and commitments, that have a tendency to cause us to just skim the surface of life. Sometimes I get so caught up in the next thing, consumption of another resource, that my relationships suffer and I worry about efficiency or productivity suffering if I use that time to talk to someone, to connect to them, to relax, to rest in life.
I wish this were not true for my life, but I am afraid it is... May God help us to resist this power structure. Amen.
your post makes me want to wet my pants with joy...
jake
Post a Comment
<< Home