Sometimes I get baffled by folks who seem so totally "lost". You know the type: class-conscious-highly impressionable consumerists concerned with achieving & maintaining the trappings of the "good life"-- the luxury car, designer clothes, vacations to brag about, over-sized houses filled with stuff that's hardly needed. It doesn't matter if this brazen, rootless search for the "American Dream" has them living in high anxiety from hand to mouth, or increasingly, in bankruptcy. So, when I read this article, I felt a rush of anger, then pity, then unrest....What can one do to correct this injustice? Where do you start? How? Leave it to blind Fate to correct the injustices? Who really knows....There's enough in the world to fufill everyone's need, but hardly enough for everyone's greed.
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.
-TAGORE
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