well said
I was re-reading Kalle Lasn's Culture Jam today, and I got to say he makes a good point here:
"Plentitude is American culture's perverse burden. Most Americans have everything they could possibly want, and they still don't think it's nearly enough. When everything is at hand, nothing is every hard won, and when nothing is hard-won, nothing really satisfies. Without satisfaction, our lives become shallow and meaningless. In this era of gigantism--corporate mergers, billion-dollar-grossing films and grande lattes--we embrace the value of More to compensate for lives that seem, somehow Less. Eat the instant you're hungry and, as the Buddist master put it, 'You will never find out what your hunger is for.' Plentitude feeds the malaise as it fills the stomach."
"Plentitude is American culture's perverse burden. Most Americans have everything they could possibly want, and they still don't think it's nearly enough. When everything is at hand, nothing is every hard won, and when nothing is hard-won, nothing really satisfies. Without satisfaction, our lives become shallow and meaningless. In this era of gigantism--corporate mergers, billion-dollar-grossing films and grande lattes--we embrace the value of More to compensate for lives that seem, somehow Less. Eat the instant you're hungry and, as the Buddist master put it, 'You will never find out what your hunger is for.' Plentitude feeds the malaise as it fills the stomach."