It was the center of learning commerce wealth and religion. Devoted to materialism extravagance luxury and the pursuit of sensual pleasure it was a privileged society. But there was also injustice poverty and oppression. It was the great and ancient Babylonthe center of the universe. And now we find Babylon redux today in Western society. Consumer capitalism a never-ending cycle of working and buying a sea of choices produced with little regard to life or resources societal violence marginalized