Americans believe the possession of material plenty will equate to the experience of happiness or wellness. It does not. It is a misconception of the most basic, elementary sort -- one that children of six or seven years old can and do make. After a day spent playing outside in the park or the woods -- running, jumping, imagining -- they understand that this is joy and that they did it for free...
It is the objective of marketing and all of the other institutional apologists for consumerism to convince you to forget this, to get you to betray your elemental self and to dismiss that ancestral knowledge.
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