Wednesday, March 19, 2014

03/19/14

Economy is not one of the necessary principles of the universe; it is one of the jokes which God indulges in precisely because He can afford it. If a man takes it seriously, however, he is doomed forever to a middle-income appreciation of the world. Indeed, only the very poor and the very rich are safe from its idolatry. The poor, because while they must take it seriously, they cannot possibly believe in it as a good; and the rich, because, though they may see it as a good, they cannot possibly take it seriously. For the one it is a bad joke, for the other, a good one; but for both it is only part of the divine ludicrousness of creation-of the sensus lusus which lies at the heart of matter. And that is why all men should hasten to become very poor or very rich-or both at once, like St. Paul, who had nothing and yet possessed all things. The world was made in sport, for sports; economy is worth only a smile. There are more serious things to laugh at.
-Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection Chapter 4 The Generous Ox, Robert F. Capon

No worker can serve two bosses: He’ll either hate the first and love the second Or adore the first and despise the second. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
-Luke 16

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