Why Capitalism Dislikes Silence

The museum courts sight—consumption, a gaze that passes through and never stays. The church courts attention: relegere, a re-gathering that gathers the light in and releases it back into its own nature—non-consumption, community. This capacity to relate to itself, not to an external purpose, permits rest and contemplation. Deprived of it, we suffocate on our own shallow, consumptive attention. Capitalism dislikes silence.