The American Soul
I've been going on at length the last few posts, so here's something short and to the point and not by me.
Listen to philosopher Needleman on Speaking of Faith's 2005 program exploring "The Religious Roots of American Democracy."
Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we ordinarily speak of as materialism is a result, not a cause. The root of materialism is a poverty of ideas about the inner and the outer world. Less and less does our contemporary culture have, or even seek, commerce with great ideas, and it is that lack that is weakening the human spirit. This is the essence of materialism. Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas.
Jacob Needleman,
from The American Soul
Listen to philosopher Needleman on Speaking of Faith's 2005 program exploring "The Religious Roots of American Democracy."
posted by mac | 5:29 PM
4 Comments:
"Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas."
To take it a bit farther...Materialism is a disease of the mind when you starve it by ignoring the "Mind" that gave you the mind to create ideas.
I can go along with that revision.
so...did I pass the test??! I realized I spelled further with an a, dang!
Hey, man, "farther" is just "further" with an "a"! They're interchangeable, for the most part. My dictionary lists the meanings under "further"; "farther" is simply identified as a variant form of "further." :)
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