"...because the rain falls upon the wicked and the good alike, there can't really be a visible distinction in this world between the saved and the damned. And yet... ...the very pointlessness of material comfort, enjoyment, or security could be substituted with the sober drive to accumulation, as such, since the development of such a surplus was in no sense for the enjoyment of 'this world'. As Norman O. Brown analyzed it, capitalist accumulation would become a kind of sacrificial commitment to thrift and rational bookkeeping for its own sake, a kind of perverse enjoyment of non-enjoyment. Commitment to rational administration for its own sake become the mark of a person whose priorities are aligned with those of the absent, invisible, endlessly deferred Kingdom of God that will never come to this earth."
Joshua Ramey Politics of Divination (2016) p.91
