Happiness Is Not Made By What We

Man Was Not Made For The Service Of Economies; Economies Were Made To Serve Mankind; And Men And Women Were Made - So We Believe - To Serve One Another, Not Just Ourselves.

We Know – It Has Been Measured In Many Experiments – That Children With Strong Impulse Control Grow To Be Better Adjusted, More Dependable, Achieve Higher Grades In School And College And Have More Success In Their Careers Than Others. Success Depends On The Ability To Delay Gratification, Which Is Precisely What A Consumerist Culture Undermines. At Every Stage, The Emphasis Is On The Instant Gratification Of Instinct. In The Words Of The Pop Group Queen, “i Want It All And I Want It Now.” A Whole Culture Is Being Infantilised.

Food Prices Are Often Kept Artificially High. The Result Is That The Millennium Development Goals Set Out By The United Nations At The Start Of The New Millennium Are Not Being Reached. Fine Words Have Not Yet Been Turned Into Deeds.

The Build-up Of Personal And Collective Debt In America And Europe Should Have Sent Warning Signals To Anyone Familiar With The Biblical Institutions Of The Sabbatical And Jubilee Years, Created Specifically Because Of The Danger Of People Being Trapped By Debt.

In Virtually Every Western Society In The 1960s There Was A Moral Revolution, An Abandonment Of Its Entire Traditional Ethic Of Self-restraint.