The market's price mechanism attempts to define the sova point culturally by imposing external, mutually balancing constraints on the availability of ‘more.’ To accomplish this the liberal economy must engender personal values that work in direct conflict with the cultural values.
In the market system one never reaches satisfaction, only indifference. One arrives at the sova point in a state of frustration because the constraint is imposed by the limitation of one's budget and by one's need to trade-off more of something for less of something else.
In the sacred system, in contrast, one reaches sova in a state of satiation. The cultural values operate in concert with the personal values where one reinforces the other. In a sacred system, satiation is experienced internally so that one feels at peace and at a consumptive rest, ready to address the possibilities and urges of creative production.
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