Most of us spend most of our lives working to earn enough money to buy meaningless possessions that we don't need. We're destroying our planet and ourselves by being mindless consumers. Please tell me, for what?
2006-11-11 02:22:00 · 5 answers · asked by abagail 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Definitely. The reason for existence, spiritual evolution, has been deferred for a while.
2006-11-14 18:39:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can only wish to someday be capable of answering your question.
Spirituality has become very unpopular, or worse, a political statement. Personally, I don't care what you believe as long as you believe something. I'm so tired of listening to people tell me what they are against, how about someone telling me what they are for?
As far as "mindless consumers" go, I agree that is a huge problem. There is so much media contact available to children today that you have to make a point, as a parent, to teach a child WHY companies advertise. It used to be taken for granted that people would teach their children that money is hard to earn and they should expect the best quality for their money. It seems now that is a dying lesson.
From a psychology standpoint it seems to be an ugly circuit:
1. We want to have "the best" things in life, so we work.
2. We want to give our children "the best" things in life, so we work harder.
3. We work so hard and long that we feel our children are neglected, so we buy them "better" things.
4. We gave our children "the best" things with no guidelines or rules to use them or take care of them.
5. We work hard and long to provide our children with "even better" things because the "better" ones they already have bore them.
6. Our children grow up to expect only the "absolute best" and discover that they have to work very long and hard to get them.
7. We now have a large segment of a generation that honestly believes that a child's love can be bought with the latest video game.
8. Our children grow up to have children and have to work longer and harder to get them the latest and greatest toy/clothes/cd/etc. because material things are how you measure the "best" things in life.
More isn't better, "more" is appreciating what went in to getting what you have. When a child is bored with something, you don't buy them more, you buy them LESS. Children are little sponges and will learn everything you teach them - even the things you wish they wouldn't pick up!
Sorry I couldn't actually answer your question, but thanks for letting me vent!
2006-11-11 10:49:22 · answer #2 · answered by DetroitBrat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
every one want to be like another if we see others were it we want it we will always want what others have this is one of the flaws of humanity
2006-11-11 10:46:10 · answer #3 · answered by queenbea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a capitalist society.
2006-11-11 10:50:36 · answer #4 · answered by mecasa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are right, we can`t take any of it with us when we die.
2006-11-11 10:27:16 · answer #5 · answered by andy c 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋