The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
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There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.
We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.
It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.
Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
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