Ordinary life is a mirage. Especially the idea of an ordinary life populated by ordinary people. This could be the greatest lie of secular culture, and one that aggressive modern capitalism, free of any religiosity to mollify it, leaps upon in order to maximise profit through the exploitation of the miracle that is humanity.
“There are no ordinary people,” wrote CS Lewis. “You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit.”
