John Tothill

It's interesting to me that greed and gluttony are separated in religious teaching.

I don't think that gluttony belongs on that list of seven deadly sins.

I don't think so.

I think greed does, but I think gluttony's different.

I think that gluttony is something of a virtue, and I think it should be celebrated.

But they are different, aren't they?

Like, we don't live in an age of gluttony.

Not really.

Gone are the days of Edward Dando, you know?

Gone are the days of the medieval feudal lord who kind of throws feasts and, you know, bakes pies that are birds within birds within birds and that kind of thing.

It's over.

Nowadays, the modern day equivalent of a feudal lord is just anyone in a fringic group who owns a printer, you know?

Tragic.

I mean, the stranglehold they have over the rest of us, it's unbelievable.

But we don't live in an age of gluttony.

We live in an age of appalling greed.

We live in an age of the kind of cruel, scheming, evil greed.

But it's the kind of greed which, up close, looks very moderate.

Like, it's no surprise to me, our modern-day Silicon Valley overlords, they're not gangrenous Henry VIII's, are they, at all?

Like, they're gym bros, you know?