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tjg 2016-06-05T12:11:38.000004Z
On the maddening split betweeen spirituality & material things...
tjg 2016-06-05T12:11:40.000005Z
> To put the matter crudely: if one relegates a certain social space simply to the selfish acquisition of material things, it is almost inevitable that soon someone else will come to set aside another domain in which to preach that, from the perspective of ultimate values, material things are unimportant; that selfishness-or even the self-are illusory, and that to give is better than to receive. ... Pure greed and pure generosity are complementary concepts; neither could really be imagined without the other; both could only arise in institutional contexts that insisted on such pure and single-minded behavior; and both seem to have appeared together wherever impersonal, physical, cash money also appeared on the scene. ― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years