"money is the visible god of this world"

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this is reality

http://futuramaepisode.org/episode-1-space-pilot-3000/

[one of those jerks]

"The connection between money thinking and rational thinking is so deeply ingrained in our rational lives that it seems impossible to question it;

"...money promotes and reflects a style of thinking which is abstract, impersonal, objective and quantitative, that is to say, the style of thinking of modern science—and what can be more rational than this?"

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Rationality and Irrationality
On[ One of the great stumbling blocks in the way of a psychoanalytical approach to money is the close connection between money and rationality We may concede to psychoanalysis legitimate concern with the irrational; but what is more rational than Homo economicus.? Of course we know that man is never Homo economicus, and therefore we might permit psychoanalysis to investige human deviations from that ideal norm. But the psychoanalytical theorems about money question the rationality of the norm itself, of which money is the center.

The connection between money thinking and rational thinking is so deeply ingrained in our practical lives that it seems impossible to question it; our practical experience is articulated in one whole school of economic theorists who define economics as the "science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses." The disposal of scarce means which have competing ends—what could be more rational than that?

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The Massey Coal Company

"Aurum in stercore quaero"

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The psychoanalytical theory of money must start by establishing the proposition than money is, in Shakespeare's words, the "visible god", in Luther's words "the God of this world"

[mnaz]

the love of money is the root of all evil.

however!

the love of evil is not the root of all money..


should truisms be reversible?

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Don Blankenship is CEO of Massey Energy, the owner of the Upper Big Branch mine that exploded yesterday, killing at least 25 miners with four still missing in the mine. Blankenship is well known as a right-wing crackpot and global warming denier, but I want to paint just a brief picture with regard to this disaster. I’ll start with Rolling Stone’s description of Don Blankenship:

The country’s highest-paid coal executive, Blankenship is a villain ripped straight from the comic books: a jowly, mustache-sporting, union-busting coal baron who uses his fortune to bend politics to his will. He recently financed a $3.5 million campaign to oust a state Supreme Court justice who frequently ruled against his company, and he hung out on the French Riviera with another judge who was weighing an appeal by Massey. “Don Blankenship would actually be less powerful if he were in elected office,” Rep. Nick Rahall of West Virginia once observed. “He would be twice as accountable and half as feared.”


http://www.buzzbox.com/top/default/prev ... sey_Energy

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Hi Mark, just doing some cutting and Pasting this book.



Sacred and Secular