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Your mobile phone example is good. The reason for that is profit, but I think the rabbit hole goes deeper. I think the banking system and fractional reserve lending is the main culprit. Everybody needs to make more money to keep the money system going, so to speak. In the Western world (with the rest following suit) it's all about how much money you have in your bank account. If you are poor, you are a failure, that kind of representation....
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 762570Hello!
I think the sickness is not so much greed but the confusion of what physicality is.
For the last few thousand years humans have been used to thinking that physical resources are limited. We naturally tend to think that we will not be able to form relationships (and, thus, exist) if we do not have these physical resources, land, etc.
This "more, more, more" is a survival instinct. It's a sickness only in respect of not being able to link the physical with the non-physical (yet). Other, non-physical entities have their own survival instinct appropriate to their surroundings.
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It's kind of like all Western ambitions being material, that would perhaps sum it up. No tribal belonging, too much individualism, a lack of expressive bonding, that sort of thing. It felt like a heart trap...
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 762570It's all for good reason, I assure you. It's not as bad as may be thought.
Perhaps there is no real "materiality". Non-physical things can also be thought of as material because there is not really any difference between the two compositions.
They're all just representations, even "spiritual".
Thanks.
