Consumerism
It has been said that man is the only animal that can feel sad after sex. Perhaps what makes money seem sexy is that we can similarly feel sad after buying something.
From “Full Pockets, Empty Lives” -Wachtel, 2003
In the Prologue to The Human Condition, with the promise that automation would empty the factories, Hannah Arendt worried that “it is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the fetters of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaninfgul activities for the sake of which this freedom would
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“We consume, as we produce, without any concrete relatedness to the objects with which we deal; We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.”
— Erich Fromm , “The Sane Society”