Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.
Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.
We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We dro...
Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich.
We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.
The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.
Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twi...
The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should g...
According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.
Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.
The faster you go, the idler you get.
The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing a...
Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him.
Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.
In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
Writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an urban Thoreau) set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without slogging through what Kerouac called the endless system of work, pr...
Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.
Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.
How is it that when we see politics permeate every life sector we call it totalitarianism and when we see religion everywhere we call it theocracy, but when commerce dominates everything we call it li...