/lit/ - Literature

Just finished my first book

>>13277761
Parmenides and the Indians proved him right my dude, movement is illusory there is only one immutable thing

Capitalism as a meta emergent force seeks to commodify everything in order to make the max profit possible. It has done this from basic consumer goods to all of the entertainment industries. It has also done this to religions in the west (Christianity, Judaism, several strands of Neopaganism, any parts of integrated Islam and so on and so on).

The fact of the matter is a lot of us feel completely aliennated from religion in the west and seek alternatives or just become athiests/agnostics, why is this beyond the consumption of information? I believe a factor that plays into this is the fact that Capitalism will effectively streamline the spirituality and deeper meanings/symbolism out of religions slowly. Compare the religions in the west to those of the Middle east (Christian middle eastern groups, foreign islam and jewish sects) and Asia (Hinuism and Buddhism) and the effects of capital are dramatically less present there. The religions there have much more of a focus on the etheral and the bonding of the community, feelings that can't be described by language. Being instead of consuming basically.

So, in this sense, capitalism and spirituality do not go together.

FACT: Don Quixote is the greatest novel ever written and this will forever remain true

>>11183456
>beat it pimp there ain't no pussy to hustle here