“Businesses, are, in reality, quasi-religious sects. When you go to work in one, you embrace A New Faith<\/i>. And if they are really big businesses, you progress from faith to a kind of mystique. Belief in the product, preaching the product, in the end the product becomes the focus of a transcendental experience. Through ‘the product’ one communes with the vast forces of life, nature, and history that are expressed in business.”<\/p>\n
–Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander<\/b> (New York, Doubleday, 1965), p. 232<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Businesses, are, in reality, quasi-religious sects. When you go to work in one, you embrace A New Faith. And if they are really big businesses, you progress from faith to a kind of mystique. Belief in the product, preaching the…<\/span><\/p>\n