If so, is it because there are more material goods to be had, therefore more things to desire? Or, is this just a general trait of humans that has been going on since the beginning of time? Why do people care so much about material things/money when everyone knows that life is so short and "you can't take it with you."? Why do people value money over kindness and compassion? I don't get it. It seems like an illness.
2007-05-30 18:48:54 · 8 answers · asked by devdas 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
The lack of real substance in there lives. Trying to buy fun when someone can not obtain real love or friendship. Lack of self discipline. The seeds of destruction for the Roman Empire, where nothing less than greed and lust. Of course this is only my humble opnion. Happy Trails
2007-05-30 19:04:22 · answer #1 · answered by foreverinbluejeansiii 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's a combination of the two. There are more material things to be had because people want more material things. It's a vicious cycle.
2007-05-30 18:53:01 · answer #2 · answered by l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there is more things, just more advertisement. We have commercials, billboards, and just plain more people walking around to make you envious. Not to mention the rise in technology with things like cell phones, computers, and any other thing that will make your life easier is also more tempting. So I think we are definitely more obsessed with making life easier and fitting in.
2007-05-30 18:59:27 · answer #3 · answered by gamerzombie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, and Caligula?? Christopher Columbus & what he did to the native Americans for gold? The gold rush?? If anything, we're less materialistic, it's just that pop culture is glorifying it with "bling-bling" and Fergi.
2007-05-30 18:52:08 · answer #4 · answered by Mickey Mouse Spears 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hello dude, King Solomon from the Bible ring a bell?
2007-05-30 18:51:30 · answer #5 · answered by voodewchile 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rattling, I cant exchange something? that could desire to take all the exciting out of it. i does no longer do no longer something quite undesirable, only pass decrease back to the super melancholy and purchase some hudred money of inventory and pass forward in time and take it decrease back out ceremony now... Is that realy so undesirable?
2016-10-06 09:00:09 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont know Im only here for the points!!!!!
2007-05-30 18:52:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, I didn't live way back when...
2007-05-30 18:58:45 · answer #8 · answered by SuzyQuinn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋