There is a lot to be said for extolling the virtues of a simple life. And there is no doubt in my mind that rampant consumerism in the modern world is a major contributor to many of the problems we face.
Interestingly, if I had read those passages and didn't know who had written them, I would have guessed that they were written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
8 posted on 06/18/2015 9:19:11 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
( "It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")