Principle one: grace

June 9th, 2016

Although grace is thrown out together with the bulk of religious discourse, it is still a common experience. Even when we reach out to get what we have (economically) earned and deserved, we receive grace, that is, things and forces have contributed to it that are beyond our control and/or knowledge. With the smallest exchange, that we consider part of the systematic (qualculated) economy, to the stability of the sun’s fusions, we are delivered in the hands of grace.

The appropriate response to grace is gratefulness: since I am such a dispensable creature that I can never reciprocate for even the smallest gift, I can only recognize the other’s generosity and my nothingness. All economization and all technologization, will never liberate us from dependence upon the gift of other beings (including other humans who aparently are remunerated enough to produce goods for us).

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