“Invisible Hand”
Jim Wallis explains, “We have trusted in the ‘invisible hand’ of the market to make everything turn out all right, and we have believed that it wasn’t necessary for us to bring virtue to bear on our decisions.” The figurative ‘invisible hand’ designates potent market powers which oversee a particular market. Such dynamisms are imperceptible but their bearing is manifest once the market has adjusted. The hand does not necessitate human involvement through moralities.
“Turns and Track”
Jim Wallis recommends, “We need to find where we made our wrong turns and how we got off track, then we need to face the truth of what brought on .” The metaphoric ‘wrong turns’ embody the faulty resolutions that instigated a calamity. Track is emblematic of the anticipated progression that would have barred a calamity.
The Market
The market undercurrents are inescapable in an economy: “Too often, the market has become like an invasive species, devouring everything in its path; this is what idols often do. It has replaced the practice of citizenship with the rituals of consumption; and the identity of the consumer has replaced the identity of the citizen - even in the strategy of political campaigns, which are now just one more marketing blitz to sell a candidate.” The market powers are caustic for they collapse ethics and uprightness. Consumerism is the eventual end of the market; hence, subtleties which thwart it are routinely shattered through approaches which are comparable to those of ‘invasive species’ which are absolutely troublesome.
