Quote for the day: vocation is a class privilege?

"While many discuss vocation in terms of authentic selfhood or personal identity, Bauman (1998) considers this a class privilege, and asserts the only vocation open to the masses today: the vocation of consumer." ~~ Bruce Spencer and Elizabeth Lange, The Purposes of Adult Education: An Introduction

Quote for the day: Abundance

"To believe in abundance is to believe that we have enough...This thinking is a stretch of the imagination. It envisions social relationships in a different world, in a manna-based culture. It's a sharp contrast to a culture organized around commerce, a market ideology based on scarcity and the central premise that we cannot believe in sufficiency. It declares that we can never be satisfied with what we have, with the effect that customer satisfaction is truly an oxymoron." ~~ Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann and John McKnight, An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture