As a former Catholic, I'm a bit confused as to why this is here. It's interesting as a primary historical document, but probably only for historians.
There's a lot of platitude around reduction of suffering, alongside some strange rhetoric about the benefits of colonialism. I also laugh every time the Catholic Church preaches anti-materialist values, given it's massive and ostentatious wealth.
There's some good stuff about the dangers of unbridled growth though.
don't read into my post here too much. 90% of my posts are to save links here for later private use. hn simply provides the additional benefit of reading people's takes on said links.
there are some gems in there that can encourage one to think of what they are doing, building for etc. what specific goals is one after and so forth. but nonetheless its not going to be a life changing document, just something to use as a passing citation in a newsletter that I run for a co-op I co-own.
There's a lot of platitude around reduction of suffering, alongside some strange rhetoric about the benefits of colonialism. I also laugh every time the Catholic Church preaches anti-materialist values, given it's massive and ostentatious wealth.
There's some good stuff about the dangers of unbridled growth though.