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The homology of God and Mammon is long known. They are both, at least for a lot of people, transcendend and abstract forces dictating human life. Over which the
by Borrible 5y ago
The homology of God and Mammon is long known.
They are both, at least for a lot of people, transcendend and abstract forces dictating human life.
Over which they have no influence.
And not just in our era [0] as Heinrich Heine did put it.
[0] https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/heine/lutece/ch31.htm https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/heine/lutece/ch31...
Both give hope of redemption from the burdens of life.
Have to revisit Georg Simmels, Philosophy of Money.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_Money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_Money