"Due to our civilization's loss of an explicit dependence on liturgy, we express it [the creative "inefficiency"] heartlessly and inaccurately: Let the free market weed out the losers, we cry. But the losers have, in a sense, "died for our salvation;" one could no more have a dynamic economy without losers than a sacrificial cult without sacrificial victims. And there is no way of distinguishing ahead of time the losers from the winners. Therefore both are integral to our economic life and deserve our respect."
+ Timothy Patitsas
