MS Coast 'media minister' faces child porn charges. He had 9,900 images, police say.

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40. I just share archive links to paywalled articles.

Way above my pay grade to catalog abusers. Power is almost always abused.

Very few use power or status with humility and compassion.

There's a review of "The Enchantments of Mammon"

Short version is that capitalism has taken the place of religion, and I believe that abusive "privilege" comes along with that.



https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984615

At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the “disenchantment” of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and magic. In this magisterial work, Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether one is prepared to acknowledge it or not. First flowering in the fields and factories of England and brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals, whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit, capitalism has become so thoroughly enmeshed in the fabric of our society that our faith in “the market” has become sacrosanct.

Informed by cultural history and theology as well as management theory, The Enchantments of Mammon looks to nineteenth-century Romantics, whose vision of labor combined reason, creativity, and mutual aid, for salvation. In this impassioned challenge to some of our most firmly held assumptions, McCarraher argues that capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity—and urges us to break its hold on our souls.