A Grammar of Justice Quotes

“The consumer cultural order is a product of the consumer economic order. Hence it is not adequate for mobilizing a civilization of poverty, which should have its corresponding cultural development. The cultural tradition will not be enlarged by following the road of permanently evolving entertainments. To confuse being entertained with being happy favors and promotes the consumption of products by inducing needs through the marketplace, but at the same time it invents and fosters an enormous inner emptiness. The civilization of poverty, far from provoking consumption and activity in the cultural sphere, tends to further what is natural and to facilitate attitudes of contemplation and communication more than attitudes of activity-consumption in some and of pure passivity-receptivity in others.”
― J. Matthew Ashley, A Grammar of Justice: The Legacy of Ignacio Ellacuria Today