I recognize this, never read it, reads similar to what I wrote recently…update 4

But any man of common sense readily perceives that the force of these parables consists in the circumstance that men do _not_ usually show this carelessness about temporal goods; and, therefore, are guilty of gross and culpable _inconsistency_, if they are comparatively careless about what is far more important.

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…the ideas are quite similar, but fails to prove I plagiarized his work.  I have never heard of nor read the work of Richard Whately.   Many people through maturation will likely draw similar conclusions about some individuals or society, given their circumstances are such that this kind of thinking will result.  Having said this, it is clear one’s life can be directed by the mind so as to recreate a similar outcome, or one’s life can be manipulated by deliberately inflicting suffering so one will disdain the things more profitable to one’s existence.  With our vast amount of knowledge to date, regarding human behavior, it would be quite easy to affect the outcome of another’s actions with devices such as media delivered to the masses through various electronic devices.   History may have come from the past, yet we do often find ourselves amidst it in the present.   It will persist, deftly depicted in Dali’s Persistence of Memory, until it is dealt with by the hand of jurisprudence or some catastrophic event forces man to look upon himself and his mind as the creator of his circumstances and that of society; it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.   And so we cling to our biblical verses from the Bible in an effort to make ourselves feel better rather than putting an effort into forging a profitable economic existence.   Jesus did die on the cross and so with him died man’s love and concern for humanity.  Some directed their emotional energies and concerns to the death of Jesus often neglecting their own lives.   Those who love him, often loved what he did to himself, not what he tried to do for the poor and suffering and so it is with them that they will many times seek to put others on the cross.   This is the nature of what modern psychologists call projection, the forcing of others to submit to their heavenly higher minds while they pursue more earthly monetary rewards.   This earthly pursuit can become lustful, blinding us to the consequences of our wanton nature.  We need only look at the conditions of our environment to see the results of this lust.

Analysis:  What we have here is a battle between the anima and animus, male and female parts of the human psyche.   Many women likely struggle more with this spiritual-material discontent than men.   It is the woman who leaves home and goes to work who suffers more than the man who climbs the corporate ladder, yet, it is the spiritual nature of the woman which balances the home and so her place in politics and business can be quite useful.   Her absence leaves our society lopsided, leaning toward the propensity for evil.   How clear this was in Nazi Germany not so long ago.