@AimeTim Tackled McCarraher's 'The Enchantments of Mammon', yet? And Brueggeman: "How badly we have read the New Testament...The New Testament is essentially about a neighborhood alternative in economics...Jesus was murdered because the Empire is scared to death of a neighborly economy."
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Copy of tweet: @nick_routledge @KenLowry8 and @johnrobb And while we're on the topic of abstraction as enslavement... Copy of tweet from @SophiaCycles 10/12/22 Thoreau noted a hundred and sixty years ago that we had grown imprisoned by the abstractions we created. His longest chapter in Walden is titled, and decries our growing enslavement to, “Economics."~James Hollis
@bearspeaks Jim Corbett, in response, speaking to the Quixotic Principle: “To open the way, a cultural breakthrough need not involve masses of people, but must be done decisively by someone"; together with Helen Caldicott: "Where American media goes, so goes the Earth." As such.
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Copy of tweet thread: CEOs on their yachts drinking thousand dollar bottles of champagne getting economic anxiety over the idea of paying their workers like $5 more an hour. Was it Cannes? I forget now. But I do recall the bankers bringing in sex workers in motor launches. Deal-making. QT: · 1/ Trained as an investment banker, I began my working life as a financial journalist in the richest square mile on the face of the planet. My brief? International-capital-markets primary-market syndication, central bank regulation, and sovereign debt.