Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.
. . . the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having. The consumer is right-there is pleasure to be had in good things, a sacred and almost unspeakable pleasure, but the consumer wrongly thinks that one finds this pleasure by having more and more possessions instead of possessing them more truly through grateful contemplation. And here we are, living in an economy that perpetuates this tragedy.
Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.
Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps everyone in bondage. With substance addiction the mindbody sets up a vicious cycle that perpetuates the dependence.
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.
There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.
War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.
Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.
