“Behind the concrete, the visible events, behind all objective, logical considerations, we find the irrational element: the struggle against the demon, against the servants of the Antichrist. Everywhere and always demonic powers lurk in the dark, waiting for the moment when man is weak; when he yields to the force of evil, he separates himself from the powers of a higher order; and after voluntarily taking the first step, he is driven on to the next and the next at a furiously accelerating rate."
The White Rose, Fourth Leaflet, Munich 1942
"What we would like to do is change the world— make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And to a certain extent, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute— the rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor in other words, we can to a certain extent change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world."
Dorothy Day, The Catholic Worker, June 1946
"Light has come into the world, and people love the darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil."
John 3:19
"It seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances. This great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Some day an absolutely correct verdict— if you like, a perfect critique— will be passed on what each of us is. We shall not only believe, we shall know, beyond doubt in every fibre of our appalled or delighted being, that as the Judge has said, so we are: neither more nor less nor other. We shall perhaps even realize that in some dim fashion we could have known it all along."
C. S. Lewis, The World's Last Night
Trading in the markets is so light, and the economic news so sparse and distorted, that trading here is just dominated by algorithmic shills.
Unless some exogenous event that has to be acknowledged by the financiers occurs, we might expect the rest of this holiday week to be roughly the same.
Maybe with a little wash and rinse action to keep the punters gambling.
Have a pleasant evening.
