We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.
Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.
I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.
Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.