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I have about a hundred pages left to go in the book, but here are some selected quotes from Culture Making, by Andy Crouch that I want to remember. I like how this book is filled with sentences packed with so much thought, that other books could focus on the ideas that briefly mentioned.
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9 months ago
In Crouch's first quote, one quickly realizes how many people, mostly unintentionally, are *choosing* a life of poverty for themselves, as he defines it. I do not mean the wounded veteran on the street (and in this context I would actually challenge Crouch's definition as being too broad), but rather the store clerk who works their 8 hours, watches 8 more of TV, gets some sleep in the mix, and does it all over again. Staying within Crouch's context, I would go so far as to say TV is our generation's greatest cause of poverty.