A meditation on "Black Friday"
From
CatholicVote:
A simple title for a simple post … I would note only that Blessed
John Paul’s critique of our culture applies to all of us. None of us,
myself of course included, is immune.
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“The more one possesses, the more one wants, while the deeper human hopes remain unsatisfied and even stifled.”
“The
individual today is often suffocated between two poles represented by
the State and the marketplace. At times it seems as though he exists
only as a producer and consumer of goods, or as an object of State
administration.”
“It
is not wrong to want to live better; what is wrong is a style of life
which is presumed to be better when it is directed towards ‘having’
rather than ‘being,’ and which wants to have more, not in order to be
more but in order to spend life in enjoyment as an end in itself.”
“It is therefore necessary to create life-styles in which the quest for truth, beauty, goodness, and communion with others.”
