Ib Jorgensen:  Says Jean-Pierre Dupuy in “Economy and the Future – A Crisis of Faith” 2014:

“Little by little, Economy emancipated itself from the shackles of the sacred. Once held in check by religion, and then by politics, it has today become both our religion and our politics. No longer subject to any higher authority, it cannot decide our future, or make us a world in which to live: it has become our future and our world. Advanced postindustrial societies have been well and truly mystified, in the original sense of that word, and their politicians hoodwinked. The result is paralysis. …. If civilization can yet be saved from extinction, the change in attitude this requires of us must be, first and foremost, metaphysical in nature.”

Me:  Amen to that Ib. And that could be either/and/or supernatural or natural metaphysics.

Ib:  Thanks – my hunch is that natural metaphysics will serve us the best – we have to nurture our capacity for self-transcendence in order for us to understand and relate to our global predicament.

Me:  I agree. Current supernaturalism has almost as much baggage as….economics :)) , but at least they do have a mental openness to grace as in the free gift that might make a number of them decent allies in the temporal fight to unseat the paradigms of Debt and Loan ONLY.