from the New Materialism...

“Should it be any surprise, after all, how easily aligned the Religious Right has become with a laissez-faire economic policy?... The neotraditionalist values-voter must surely recognize at least the tension, if not outright opposition, when their professed values run up against the relativization of all values that is the inevitable outcome of capitalism’s making of money as the measure of all things... The same company that made stars of the likes of Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity run weekly parodies of their small-minded, loud-mouthed ways in the form of ‘Family Guy.’ In other words, it is not ideology that drives Fox News but crass capitalism. Whether selling smut or decrying it, the bottom line is the only value that maters. It is in this sense that we are speaking of the cynicism that passes for ethics today.”

- Crockett & Robbins, “Religion, Politics, & the Earth: The New Materialism”