Disrupting Prison Policy

Debt as the Engine of Society


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The third episode of The Ethics Age podcast explores the concept of debt, which forms a significant part of most lives within a neoliberal system. From the need for a mortgage, literally a 'death debt' to the need for personal debts to enable us to acquire the things that Capitalism tells us we want, we are mired in something that we spend our lives trying to escape. While in this position we are unable to take to the streets in protest, to object to the injustices in our society. We need to remain employable and therefore well-behaved because we need an income to pay off our debts. However, the Bible has a radically different imagination around debt. We have to do business with how neoliberalism has its grasp over our hearts, imagination, our desire. The things we want are so shaped by Capitalism that we can't even believe that life would be better if we didn't own the things ourselves. 

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Disrupting Prison PolicyBy Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice