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September 17, 2024

The ‘Superiority’ of Billionaires

Filed under: daily — Lawrence Peterson @ 7:25 am

[they] struggled with one another in envy, for there the power of evil rules, and envying about trifles.
Ascension of Isaiah [After being escorted to the seventh heaven, Isaiah witnesses the Christ descending into the world in which we live which he describes here.]

“To me, in this our life,” says the professor, which is as internecine warfare with the Timespirit, other warfare seems questionable. Has thou in any way a Contention with thy brother? I advise thee, think well what the meaning thereof is. If thou gauge it to the bottom, it is simply this: “Fellow, see! thou art taking more than thy share of Happiness in the world, something from my share; which, by the Heavens, thou shalt not; nay, I will fight thee rather.’ –Alas, and the whole lot to be divided is such a beggarly matter, truly a ‘feast of Shells,’ for the substance has bee spilled out– not enough to quench one Appetite; and the collective human species clutching at them! –Can we not, in all such cases, rather say: ‘take it, thou too-ravenous individual; take that pitiful additional fraction of a share, which I reckoned mine, but which thou wantest; take it with a blessing–would to Heaven I had enough for thee!’

Thoma Carlyle, Sartor Resartus

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