The danger here is that Marxism promotes misunderstanding of money. Religion was orthogonal to the understanding of money. Thus, man sought to escape the (sometimes beneficial) magical thinking of religion only to fall into far more harmful magical thinking.
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Desire for basic needs can be reduced to a desire for security which is Mimetic. Lack of Mimetic desire would be trust in God to provide all basic needs for security.
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Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then, God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and tomorrow is cast into the oven;
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How much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith? And seek the not what he shall eat, or what he shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. Luke 12:27-29
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Needs are modified by desire but are also independant: eating is a need but eating this or that can come from desire. We underestimated mimetic desire, we must now avoid to overestimate it. It doesn't explain everything.
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Needs are real, but I wonder if not the search to fulfil those needs comes from a desire for security rather than a need fulfillment. It seems natural to not desire needs to be fulfilled but to simply fulfil them. When food is scarce (always artificially) is when desire enters.
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Reminds me of the proverb, lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. It seems that being poor, while not in itself sinful, increases this sinful desire for security. Just as richness increases desire for self-sufficiency before god.
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"Ahimsa" is a buddhist name but I see you're more christian than I am. I believed for many years but now I don't. I still appreciate the moral aspects, the wisdom, of christianity but a loving God in Creation, that's what I can't "see". I see the opposite: a cruel Creation.
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Cruel creation was the lesson in Job. Even the good man suffers. Dostoevsky, who we know is religious, offers the solution of being the optimistic comedic fool.
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I stop there. Big heat where I live.
And I have to traduce, verify: difficult task.
I just wanted to talk about value: work + offer/demand,
not only offer/demand (where mimetic theory is efficient
and useful)
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