WESTERN LANGUAGES: RELIGIOUS MYTH, MORAL POETRY, TECHNICAL (AMORAL) LAW, AND SCI

WESTERN LANGUAGES: RELIGIOUS MYTH, MORAL POETRY, TECHNICAL (AMORAL) LAW, AND SCIENTIFIC POLITICS

I’ll translate this passage by Roger Scruton from religio-moral poetry into scientific language:

**The use of credit money to encourage hyper consumption makes us less directly dependent upon one another, more isolated from one another, and lacking the incentive to obtain status and self worth in the service of one another.

We have replaced civic society with selfish society, and culture with loneliness by the use of monetary dilution as a vehicle for increasing employment and consumption at the expense of creating a civic society.***

That’s about as scientific as you can make it.

(My job you know: translate our victorian, enlightenment, medieval, and archaic moral language into the language of science. Whereby it can be seen to have been scientific in content all along, even if it was structured as “the poetry of moral rhetoric.”)

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine