Friday, December 30, 2022

15,892. BRAVE MEN WHO MAKE MONEY

BRAVE MEN WHO MAKE MONEY
It's a simple matter of accumulation.
Brave men who make money don't
do anything for the common good but
take. Intentions are elsewhere, really,
and are they not? Otherwise every
bar mitzvah boy would become a
rabbi, and every Catholic Communion
kid would operate an orphanage. There's 
something that happens within that transforms.
Education and religion make them think of
self and money instead? I don't know.
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I do know that Delmore Schwartz had it all
more right than wrong. The world has to be
abandoned, and walked away from : 'Stop!
Don't do it! Don't open the door to such
ill-wealth and misery!'

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