ABSTRACT
Few people pray for abundant harvests of grain in the fall and many lambs and good pastures in the spring. Few people awake to the rising sun or the crow of a rooster. Rather, our cosmos is now the economy. We awake to a radio announcer speaking solemnly of stock markets rising or falling in financial capitals to our East, work in hierarchical corporate and governmental organizations while praising the freedom of markets, and are dependent for our food and clothing on others working at considerable distances in a great global economic machine. Church steeples that once reached for the heavens now cower below towering buildings bearing corporate names. City lights and polluted air curtain us from the awe-inspiring magnificence of the starry heavens; few are even aware of the phases of the moon. Our cosmos is now humancentered; and we manage our friendships and connections to reality on backlit screens.
