I have always felt that the more you acquire things, the more you become possessed by your things. Our country has an abundance of beautiful and useful shiny gadgets, toys and accessories that are attractive, but not needed.
Yes, and when you die, people fight over the valuable stuff and just throw out the rest.
Dylan had a great lyric about this:
"Advertising signs that con
You into thinking you're the one
That can do whats never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on all around you."
or as Mick Jagger put it:
"A man comes on the radio whose tellin me more and more
About some useless information,
How white my shirts can be
But he can't be a man cause he doesn't smoke
The same cigarettes as me..."
