- Modern life has many features that some see as pleasures, but are really destructive temptations. These include fancy refined foods (make us fat and sick), the electronic world (isolates us from others and wastes our time), things (waste our money, divert our attention, become status symbols, can become objects of obsession), conveniences (make us helpless, dependent, soft, remove ritual and meaning from life), recorded music (may cause us to listen to it instead of making music ourselves), pornography (can give us unrealistic expectations for sex, become an obsession), gambling (trying to get something for nothing, waste of time, wrong), cosmetic surgery (trying to be something you’re not) …
- The problem with consumerism is that it is naked selfishness.
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Daria Doering 
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