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In the end, Sidewalkers need to feed their insatiable lifestyle, which is fueled by an urgent and continuous need for pleasure, image, and instant gratification. This “Lifestyle Servitude” perpetuates an accelerating cycle of consumption and debt, forever enslaving the Sidewalker to their addictions: their appearance, their material goods, their
... See moreMJ DeMarco • The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime
James feels, as does Scheffler, that our understanding of human life as a whole ‘relies on an implicit understanding of such a life as itself occupying a place in an ongoing human history, in a temporally extended chain of lives and generations’.7 Without that wider context for our lives, it is not clear to what extent the ordinary pleasures of
... See moreDerren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
humans are really good at being Anywhere But Here.
Howard Jacobson • Sick to Fit: Three simple techniques that got me from 420 pounds to the cover of Runner’s World, Good Morning America, and the Today Show
IT’S BEEN well-documented that there is a growing sense of entitlement among young people today.
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
The people Crossan described as the expendables, those at the bottom of the bottom of the world’s pyramids of power.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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