The Solution The High Price of Materialism

The solution to the high price of materialism

Are you obsessed with everything he has? Surely yes. We have become a nation of consumers, that is our main hallmark. According to the book Affluenza [I] live to eat: the truth is that we buy and then throw so many things that our spending in garbage bags only is greater than total expenditures represent 90% of the 210 countries that make up the planet .

This search continues to accumulate things has become a kind of social transmitted disease infecting just the spirit and threatening to destroy not only the environment but also families and societies. And what's more, to achieve what they want, many have put aside their scruples and do not hesitate to resort to all sorts of vicious acts.

For example: companies put into practice an effective strategy they call "planned obsolescence?, Or put another way" designed to go away?. This strategy might seem logical if we think about waste bags or paper products may, however, now takes place in the production of high-cost goods like cameras or computers. Moreover, computer technology is designed for computers manufactured today become obsolete as soon as possible, and within a couple of years are converted into a real hindrance to communication.

Yet at the same time, these companies claim that consumers store all the confidence in their products. This is where comes in another technique called "perceived obsolescence? and that will convince us to take care of disposal of products that are still perfectly usable. How do they manage to get it? Change the look of things. And fashion is the best example of this. It encourages us to value people according to the clothes they wear or the cars they drive, and follow trends, not to say there will not follow them!

A glance at the current state of the economy should be enough to realize that something certainly is wrong in our financial systems. If there are one hundred powerful economies in the world, fifty-one are from big companies. But what is really outrageous is the fact that both dishonesty and opaque methods used by these companies are presented to society as honest practices, as something that all humans should aspire. Somehow we have been brainwashed to end up thinking that "we must be up to the neighbor across the street? and have at least the same as him.

But how have we reached this point where the average citizen of the United States consumes twice what it consumed fifty years ago? According to Story of Stuff [II] "Shortly after the Second World War did not really know how to make the economy into a growth rate. The business analyst Victor Labow articulated the solution that has become the standard that now governs the entire system. He explained that "an enormously productive economy such as ours requires that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and procurement of goods into rituals, that consumption will bring satisfaction to our ego and our spirit. We need things consumed, used, they become unnecessary and are replaced more and more quickly?.

And perhaps worst of all is that this sickness of the soul is sweeping the country spreading to other nations. Never before have people felt so empty and now - we're realizing how true that was the proverb that said "money does not bring happiness?. While we have everything we want and more, fourteen million Americans have fallen into drug abuse and twelve million are heavy drinkers. Depression, suicide, illness ... all lurking about us and the next generation. And I do not understand why.

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, the current crisis is the result of the evolution of our desire to receive. What do we mean by this? By nature, our lives are governed by desires and our attempts to satisfy them.

One of the most important Kabbalistic texts, The Book of Zohar says that even in our time humanity will emerge in a new spiritual desire and the wisdom of Kabbalah is the only method capable of satisfying it. One method that will allow us to discover a new source of fulfillment: the spiritual world that is beyond this material world around us.

As we move into the study of this ancient teaching, we become aware not only of the real reasons for the conspicuous consumption, but many other problems our world in particular and in general. Begin to understand that there is a law operating in every system of nature: the law of grant. We begin to understand that all this agitation for cross now is the result of how we act selfishly and against the law. Thanks to the wisdom of Kabbalah we understand, to exist in harmony with the laws of Nature. Questions such as "What is the meaning of my life? ? or "Why I never feel completely satisfied? ?, Which have accompanied man for thousands of years, again not be a mystery to us.