In the West, we are trapped in these cycles of endless striving and dissatisfaction, trying to keep up with the ever-more elaborate displays of consumption we see on television and the Internet. This drive to accumulate material goods and services appears to have addictive qualities: it is a powerful appetite which has no inbuilt mechanism to alert us to when we have had enough; we want more and more - especially, it seems, just that little bit more than everyone else... Although we have relative material abundance, we do not in fact have emotional abundance. Many people are deprived of what really matters. Lacking emotional security, they seek security in material things. - Sue Gerhardt, from the book, The Selfish Society
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:22:09 +0000
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