Hi Guys
A friend of mine fwded me this mail, with the thinker's thoughts on.. The bit about post capitalism immeditatly caught my eye.. If christians are missionaries to contemporary cultures.. the what would the influence of post capitalism be? What would it look like?
"Wat beteken dit vir ons as Christene? Dit is presies tye soos die wat vasstel of ons skatte in die hemel is of op die aarde. Dit is nie vir ons om te worry nie. God het belowe dat ons sal eet en aantrek, en in dit kan ek ook lees, warm slaap (vir ons in Duitsland is dit belangrik). Die krises het ek elk geval 3 jare terug voorspel. Die val van kapitalisme is die laaste vesting van die moderne tyd, dit is eers na kapitalisme wat ons regtig in die postmoderne tyd sal in beweeg. Die oorgang in postkapitalisme gaan nie oornag gebeur nie, maar dit het begin met die krises. Postkapitalisme is nie sosialisme nie; sosialisme was ook 'n vesting van die moderne tyd en het al klaar weggeval. Wat postkapitalisme presies gaan wees sal tyd ons leer, maar tot dan is dit ons as Christene se taak om sekerheid te wys in ons verhouding met God." Hannes Nortje
For our english readers, the bit basically says: That the financial crisis started the fall of capitalism, and that capitalism is the last stronghold of modernity. Post capitalism will not be socialism since that is also a relic of the modern age. Finally that we will only enter a true post modern age when we enter post capitalism...
hmmm.
g&p
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
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that's probably right... what are some marks fo this?
ReplyDeleteI think one is the returning to subsistence farming, and people moving away from the cities to form small almost agricultural communities. Maybe New monasticism is also a part of this?
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