The economy is always in the news. It faces us personally everyday. My kids have gone to college, not always thinking about how they will support themselves once they are “grown up”. We struggle to avoid the pitfalls of Babylon, but we have to pay our bills. If you have enough money, you don’t have to think about it. If you don’t, you think about it everyday. It’s a vicious cycle that I’m not sure how to handle or avoid.
I listened to a Nibley MP3 when he spoke at a commencement exericise at BYU in August of 1983:
Most of you are here today only because you believe that this charade will help you get ahead in the world. But in the last few years things have got out of hand. The economy, once the most important thing in our materialistic lives, has become the only thing. We have been swept up in a total dedication to the economy…If President Kimball is “frightened and appalled” by what he sees, I can do no better than to conclude with his words: “We must leave off the worship of modern-day idols and a reliance on the ‘arm of flesh,’ for the Lord has said to all the world in our day, ‘I will not spare any that remain in Babylon’ (D&C 64:24).
And Babylon is where we are. (Leaders and Managers)
