Wow! The pope made comments today that align with our views
Posted: August 14th, 2014, 11:05 pm
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filip ... -affluence
Three quotes from the pope that align with what Winston and I have been saying about American culture. I especially agree with # 3 though.
1) "In the homily of the Mass, the pope urged listeners to "combat the allure of a materialism that stifles authentic spiritual and cultural values and the spirit of unbridled competition which generates selfishness and strife".
Quotes from happier abroad and global dating solution :
“Americans are raised with a COMPETITIVE mindset where they see others as potential enemies to watch out for. Competition divides people and is unhealthy in the long run. After all, if your heart and your liver competed with each other, would that be good for your body and health? Thus Americans don't really trust other people, and they feel all alone because there is no one for them to lean on. They have NO EMOTIONAL SUPPORT from others, and so they stand alone, which WEAKENS and FRAGMENTS them psychologically†(Winston Wu)
"In the workplace, in friendships, even in motherhood, the pervading culture seems to have become one of competitiveness, superiority and one-upmanship." (Jean Twenge Generation me)
2) He said they should see their faith as an "antidote to the spirit of despair that seems to grow like a cancer in societies which are outwardly affluent, yet often experience inner sadness and emptiness".
Quotes from happier abroad and global dating solution
"When Mother Teresa visited America, she said we are a poor nation overall in a spiritual sense. America's poverty, she said, is worse than that of India's, for it is that of a terrible loneliness that come from wanting the wrong things." (Morris Berman Dark Ages America pg 237)
"The United States is like Rome in the later stages of the empire: a similarly souless, politically corrupt, everybody-for-himself civilization." (Morris Berman Dark Ages America pg 77).
"It seems clear enough that when you put money (or commodities) at the center of culture, you finally don't have a culture. Indeed, the Germans have a word to describe this type of situation: sinnentleert ("devoid of meaning"). America can strut and puff all it wants, but on some level, all of us know this (it struts and puffs because it is empty.) After all, Rome may have looked invincible in, say, A.. 300, but history proved otherwise."(Morris Berman Dark Ages America pg 77)
3)Last year, in the first major written work of his papacy, Francis, the first non-European pontiff in 1,300 years, attacked unfettered capitalism as "a new tyranny," urging global leaders to fight poverty and growing inequality.
Three quotes from the pope that align with what Winston and I have been saying about American culture. I especially agree with # 3 though.
1) "In the homily of the Mass, the pope urged listeners to "combat the allure of a materialism that stifles authentic spiritual and cultural values and the spirit of unbridled competition which generates selfishness and strife".
Quotes from happier abroad and global dating solution :
“Americans are raised with a COMPETITIVE mindset where they see others as potential enemies to watch out for. Competition divides people and is unhealthy in the long run. After all, if your heart and your liver competed with each other, would that be good for your body and health? Thus Americans don't really trust other people, and they feel all alone because there is no one for them to lean on. They have NO EMOTIONAL SUPPORT from others, and so they stand alone, which WEAKENS and FRAGMENTS them psychologically†(Winston Wu)
"In the workplace, in friendships, even in motherhood, the pervading culture seems to have become one of competitiveness, superiority and one-upmanship." (Jean Twenge Generation me)
2) He said they should see their faith as an "antidote to the spirit of despair that seems to grow like a cancer in societies which are outwardly affluent, yet often experience inner sadness and emptiness".
Quotes from happier abroad and global dating solution
"When Mother Teresa visited America, she said we are a poor nation overall in a spiritual sense. America's poverty, she said, is worse than that of India's, for it is that of a terrible loneliness that come from wanting the wrong things." (Morris Berman Dark Ages America pg 237)
"The United States is like Rome in the later stages of the empire: a similarly souless, politically corrupt, everybody-for-himself civilization." (Morris Berman Dark Ages America pg 77).
"It seems clear enough that when you put money (or commodities) at the center of culture, you finally don't have a culture. Indeed, the Germans have a word to describe this type of situation: sinnentleert ("devoid of meaning"). America can strut and puff all it wants, but on some level, all of us know this (it struts and puffs because it is empty.) After all, Rome may have looked invincible in, say, A.. 300, but history proved otherwise."(Morris Berman Dark Ages America pg 77)
3)Last year, in the first major written work of his papacy, Francis, the first non-European pontiff in 1,300 years, attacked unfettered capitalism as "a new tyranny," urging global leaders to fight poverty and growing inequality.