Kurt Vonnegut exposed the taproot of our modern suffering as the gnawing sense that what we have is not enough, that what we are is not enough. This is our modern curse: A century of conspicuous consumption has trained us to be dutiful citizens of the Republic of Not Enough, swearing allegiance to the marketable myth of scarcity, hoarding toilet paper for the apocalypse. Along the way, we have unlearned how to live wide-eyed with wonder at what Hermann Hesse called “the little joys” — those unpurchasable, unstorable emblems of aliveness that abound the moment we look up from our ledger of lack.
Author: Maria Popova
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Consumerism, Life & Society, Material Possessions
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Consumerism, Life & Society, Material Possessions
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