Jeff Bezo’s Spaceship Matters More Than Human Lives: Understanding Freedom in The Age of Mammon

Eric Van Evans
3 min readAug 24, 2023

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“Under capitalism, money occupies the ontological throne from which God has been evicted.”
― Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity

We moderns understand freedom as having the ability to do whatever one wishes, without…

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Eric Van Evans

Eric Van Evans is a professor, writer, philosopher, and YouTuber. Rutgers BA: Philosophy and Psychology Johns Hopkins MA: Global Security and Intelligence