J. Danielle

I spent years searching for a meaningful definition of the word “love,” and was deeply relieved when I found one in psychiatrist M. Scott Peck’s classic self-help book The Road Less Traveled, first published in 1978. Echoing the work of Erich Fromm, he defines love as “the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or

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Thomas Hine’s 1995 book, Total Package, which chronicles the history of consumer packaged goods, described the things that house the products we buy as “persuasive containers”—boxes and jugs and jars designed not just to safeguard their contents but to produce particular behaviors in the people who encounter them. The consumer system puts forth a... See more

This is the very bland and very basic and college-freshman level thing I’ve been thinking about: what is luxury?