Materialism? Consumerism?

[bindi]

Hi all,

I don't know what it is with me tonight... feeling a little tired perhaps.

But I just saw a movie called In Good Company with Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace. And also today I finished the book "Affluence". Both were really great, both spoke volumes about our society today.

I am feeling jaded by the world of materialism. Does it really matter what you own or how much money you make or how your BA is better than the neighbour's Excel? Is anyone here like me, and thinking there is more to life?

Are we a slave to our possessions? Why is it that when we get that renovated kitchen/surround sound system/latest mobile phone etc, we're happy for a little while... but then want something bigger and better? Are we listening when being told by advertisers that to feel better we should buy something else? Or take this prescribed medication that the drug companies have paid your doctor to endorse?

What does it mean to have a Porsche and all the money you could need, but nobody who gives a rats about whether you live or die, in your life?

Don't we all realise that we are one living unit, everyone on this planet is connected, and what we do to ourselves, we do to another?

Gee I am a hippie... : :