If our personal value system is reflective of economic value systems then ours must be based on a Limited Value structure. The less there is of any one thing, the more coveted, the more powerful -- our emotional reflection must function the same way. If the body is most comforted by certainty, and the psychological weight of emotion determined by rarity, are we predisposed to a depressive sense of daily life? A suppressed version of reality, maybe.
The perception of value in general is economic, the word is economic. As a colonial island culture the cultivation of difficult to obtain but more importantly rare goods was and is vital to survival. If now we lack industry the power structure of such a large social group is built on money, the obtaining, to have access to the scarce and claim dominance. More sticky though-- experience itself is valued on an economic scale: so even personally, the rarer, the more valuable. Awe or even the reality of being is nearly impossible to sustain because experiences with the divine are intended to be the Most valuable, i.e. rare, so they should be revelations and uncommon. Is it possible to value personal experience on any other scale? It may be capitalistic, or just the hierarchy of social order going back much further which demands a value system for structure itself.
