What I want to underscore about Hayek is that he presided over what William Cavanaugh has called a “migration of the holy,” a forced march of sanctity and reverence from the sacred to the ostensibly secular. Inheriting the duty of divine vindication from a waning Protestant hegemony, Hayek illustrates how capitalist economics has always been a kind of theodicy: what seems irrational to mere mortals is actually the emanation of a superior, unaccountable wisdom—a modern analogue to the pre-modern theological concept of providence. In Hayek’s pecuniary ontology, ignorance is bliss and servility is freedom; the more we bow to the logos of the Market in subservience to its mandates, we will be rewarded with riches in the sublunary realm of business. And those mandates are promulgated in the canonical idiom of money, the mercenary emblem of the cosmos. Neoliberalism is not just the highest stage of capitalism; it’s the highest stage of capitalist enchantment, when money comes into its own as the anima mundi of a marketized planet.
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3/28/2020 11:15:30 pm
Money is important to all of us, especially in these days where we use it to buy some things and use it for our everyday needs. Life may be tough when you have less amount of money so let us be smart in handling our finances so that there will be no problems that may arise in the future. We should know how to spend wisely and be sure not to worship money in the future. Life can be that hard sometimes, but I know that there will be an alternative for this. Let us wait patiently for better days are coming.
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